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Isaiah 42

25 aligned verses; 25 with wording or punctuation differences .

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“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold , My Chosen One , in whom My soul delights . I will put My Spirit on Him , and He will bring justice to the nations .
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold ; my chosen, in whom my soul delights : I have put my Spirit on him ; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles .
He will not cry out or raise His voice , nor make His voice heard in the streets .
He will not cry, nor lift up his voice , nor cause it to be heard in the street .
A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
A bruised reed will he not break , and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth .
He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth . In His law the islands will put their hope .
He will not fail nor be discouraged , until he have set justice in the earth ; and the isles shall wait for his law.
This is what God the LORD says He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it :
Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens , and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it , and spirit to those who walk therein :
I, the LORD , have called you for a righteous purpose , and I will take hold of your hand . I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
I, Yahweh , have called you in righteousness , and will hold your hand , and will keep you , and give you for a covenant of the people , for a light of the Gentiles;
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
to open the blind eyes , to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon , and those who sit in darkness out of the prison - house.
I am the LORD; that is My name ! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols .
I am Yahweh, that is my name ; and my glory will I not give to another , neither my praise to engraved images .
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.
Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare . Before they spring forth I tell you of them .
Sing to the LORD a new song His praise from the ends of the earth you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it , you islands , and all who dwell in them .
Sing to Yahweh a new song , and his praise from the end of the earth ; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein , the isles , and the inhabitants of it .
Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops .
Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [ their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing , let them shout from the top of the mountains .
Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.
Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
The LORD goes forth like a mighty one ; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies :
Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man ; he will stir up [ his ] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies .
I have kept silent from ages past ; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor ; I will at once gasp and pant.
I have long time held my peace ; I have been still, and refrained myself: [ now ] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together .
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes .
I will lay waste mountains and hills , and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools .
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground . These things I will do for them , and I will not forsake them.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them ; I will make darkness light before them , and crooked places straight . These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, You are our gods !’ will be turned back in utter shame .
They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
Listen , you deaf ones ; look, you blind ones , that you may see !
Hear , you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see .
Who is blind but My servant , or deaf like the messenger I am sending ? Who is blind like My covenant partner , or blind like the servant of the LORD ?
Who is blind , but my servant ? or deaf , as my messenger whom I send ? Who is blind as he who is at peace , and blind as Yahweh's servant?
Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch . Though your ears are open, you do not hear.
You see many things, but don't observe . His ears are open, but he doesn't hear.
The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious .
It pleased Yahweh , for his righteousness ' sake , to magnify the law , and make it honorable .
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them , and loot with no one to say , “Send them back!”
But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey , and none delivers; for a spoil , and none says, Restore.
Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter ?
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come ?
Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers ? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned ? They were unwilling to walk in His ways , and they would not obey His law.
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers ? Didn't Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle . It enveloped them in flames , but they did not understand ; it consumed them , but they did not take it to heart.
Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger , and the strength of battle ; and it set him on fire round about , yet he didn't know ; and it burned him , yet he didn't lay it to heart.

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