{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/42","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:17:37.955Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":42,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":41,"nextChapter":43,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"BEHOLD my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles: "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you head them. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Sing ye to the Lora a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"20. Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear? "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come? "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 42 (DRB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 42](https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/42)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/42 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}