1  ^bBehold ^cmy ^dservant, whom I uphold,

^emy chosen, ^fin whom my soul delights;

^gI have put my Spirit upon him;

he will bring forth justice to the nations.

2  He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,

or make it heard in the street;

3  a bruised reed he will not break,

and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;

he will faithfully bring forth justice.

4  He will not grow faint or be discouraged¹

till he has established justice in the earth;

and the coastlands wait for his law.

5  Thus says God, the Lord,

^hwho created the heavens and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and what comes from it,

who gives breath to the people on it

and spirit to those who walk in it:

6  “I am the Lord; I have called you² in righteousness;

I will take you by the hand and keep you;

ⁱI will give you as a covenant for the people,

a ^jlight for the nations,

7  ^kto open the eyes that are blind,

^lto bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,

from the prison those who sit in darkness.

8  I am the Lord; ^mthat is my name;

ⁿmy glory I give to no other,

nor my praise to carved idols.

9  Behold, the former things have come to pass,

and ^onew things I now declare;

before they spring forth

I tell you of them.”

10  Sing to the Lord a new song,

his praise from the end of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,

the coastlands and their inhabitants.

11  Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,

the villages that Kedar inhabits;

let the habitants of Sela sing for joy,

let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12  Let them ^pgive glory to the Lord,

and declare his praise in the coastlands.

13  The Lord goes out ^qlike a mighty man,

like a man of war he stirs up his ^rzeal;

he cries out, he shouts aloud,

he shows himself mighty against his foes.

14  For a long time ^sI have held my peace;

I have kept still and restrained myself;

now I will cry out like a woman in labor;

I will gasp and pant.

15  I will lay waste mountains and hills,

and dry up all their vegetation;

I will turn the rivers into islands,³

and dry up the pools.

16  And I will lead the blind

in a way that they do not know,

in paths that they have not known

I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light,

^tthe rough places into level ground.

These are the things I do,

and I do not forsake them.

17  They are turned back and utterly ^uput to shame,

who trust in carved idols,

who say to metal images,

“You are our gods.”

18  Hear, you deaf,

and look, you blind, that you may see!

19  Who is blind but my servant,

or deaf as my messenger whom I send?

Who is blind as my dedicated one,⁴

or blind as the servant of the Lord?

20  He sees many things, but does not observe them;

his ears are open, but he does not hear.

21  The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake,

to magnify his law and make it glorious.

22  But this is a people plundered and looted;

they are all of them trapped in holes

and hidden in prisons;

they have become plunder with none to rescue,

spoil with none to say, “Restore!”

23  Who among you will give ear to this,

will attend and listen for the time to come?

24  Who gave up Jacob to the looter,

and Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,

in whose ways they would not walk,

and whose law they would not obey?

25  So he poured on him the heat of his anger

and the might of battle;

it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;

it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.

1  But now thus says the Lord,

he who created you, O Jacob,

he who formed you, O Israel:

“Fear not, for I have ^vredeemed you;

I have called you by name, you are mine.

2  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;

when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,

and the flame shall not consume you.

3  For I am the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I give ^wEgypt as your ransom,

Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

4  Because you are precious in my eyes,

and honored, and I ^xlove you,

I give men in return for you,

peoples in exchange for your life.

5  ^yFear not, for I am with you;

I will bring your offspring ^zfrom the east,

and from the west I will gather you.

6  I will say to the north, Give up,

and to the south, Do not withhold;

^abring my sons from afar

^band my daughters from the end of the earth,

7  everyone who is ^ccalled by my name,

whom I created for my glory,

whom I formed and made.”

8  Bring out the people ^dwho are blind, yet have eyes,

who are deaf, yet have ears!

9  All the nations gather together,

and the peoples assemble.

Who among them can ^edeclare this,

and show us the former things?

Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,

and let them hear and say, It is true.

10  ^f“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

that you may know and believe me

and understand that ^gI am he.

Before me no god was formed,

nor shall there be any after me.

11  I, I am the Lord,

and ^hbesides me there is no savior.

12  I declared and saved and proclaimed,

when there was no strange god among you;

and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.

13  Also henceforth I am he;

there is none who can deliver from my hand;

I work, and ⁱwho can turn it back?”

14  Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“For your sake I send to Babylon

and bring them all down as fugitives,

even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.

15  I am the Lord, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.”

16  Thus says the Lord,

^jwho makes a ^kway in the sea,

a path in the mighty waters,

17  who brings forth chariot and horse,

army and warrior;

they lie down, they cannot rise,

they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

18  ^l“Remember not the former things,

nor consider the things of old.

19  Behold, I am doing a ^mnew thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and ⁿrivers in the desert.

20  The wild beasts will honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches,

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people,

21  the people whom I formed for myself

^othat they might declare my praise.

22  “Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;

but ^pyou have been weary of me, O Israel!

23  You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings,

or honored me with your sacrifices.

I have not burdened you with offerings,

or wearied you with frankincense.

24  You have not bought me sweet cane with money,

or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.

But you have ^qburdened me with your sins;

you have ^rwearied me with your iniquities.

25  “I, I am he

who ^sblots out your transgressions ^tfor my own sake,

and I will not ^uremember your sins.

26  Put me in remembrance; let us argue together;

set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

27  Your first father sinned,

and your mediators transgressed against me.

28  Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,

and deliver Jacob to utter destruction

and Israel to reviling.

1  Oh come, let us ^psing to the Lord;

let us ^qmake a joyful noise to the ^rrock of our salvation!

2  Let us come into his presence ^swith thanksgiving;

let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

3  For ^tthe Lord is a great God,

and a great ^uKing ^vabove all gods.

4  In his hand are the depths of the earth;

the heights of the mountains are his also.

5  The sea is his, for ^whe made it,

and his hands formed the dry land.

6  Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

7  For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

^xToday, if you hear his voice,

8  do not harden your hearts, ^yas at Meribah,

as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

9  when your fathers ^zput me to the test

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

10  For forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known my ways.”

11  ^aTherefore I ^bswore in my wrath,

“They shall not enter my rest.”