Behold my servant, whom I uphold: my elect, in whom my soul delights: I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his Tora.

Thus says God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations;

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to carved idols.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and their inhabitants.

Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Qedar inhabits: 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.

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up ardour like a man of war: he shall cry, indeed, roar; he shall show himself mighty against his foes.

I have a long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a woman in travail; I will gasp and pant together.

I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These are the things which I have done, and I have not forsaken them.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved idols, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.

Hear, O deaf; and look, O blind, that you may see.

Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant?

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he hears not.

The Lord was well pleased for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify Tora, and to make it glorious.

Therefore this is a people robbed and spoiled; 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 give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

Who gave Ya῾aqov for a spoil, and Yisra᾽el to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, and unto whose Tora they were not obedient?

Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.