{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "isaiah", "chapter": 42 }, "data": { "n": 42, "bookSlug": "isaiah", "bookCode": "ISA", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "ISA-42:1", "verseRef": "Isa.42.1", "text": "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "ISA-42:2", "verseRef": "Isa.42.2", "text": "He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "ISA-42:3", "verseRef": "Isa.42.3", "text": "A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "ISA-42:4", "verseRef": "Isa.42.4", "text": "He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "ISA-42:5", "verseRef": "Isa.42.5", "text": "Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ISA-42:6", "verseRef": "Isa.42.6", "text": "I, Jehovah, 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 Gentiles;" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ISA-42:7", "verseRef": "Isa.42.7", "text": "to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ISA-42:8", "verseRef": "Isa.42.8", "text": "I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ISA-42:9", "verseRef": "Isa.42.9", "text": "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ISA-42:10", "verseRef": "Isa.42.10", "text": "Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ISA-42:11", "verseRef": "Isa.42.11", "text": "Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ISA-42:12", "verseRef": "Isa.42.12", "text": "Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ISA-42:13", "verseRef": "Isa.42.13", "text": "Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ISA-42:14", "verseRef": "Isa.42.14", "text": "I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ISA-42:15", "verseRef": "Isa.42.15", "text": "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." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ISA-42:16", "verseRef": "Isa.42.16", "text": "And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not 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." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ISA-42:17", "verseRef": "Isa.42.17", "text": "They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ISA-42:18", "verseRef": "Isa.42.18", "text": "Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ISA-42:19", "verseRef": "Isa.42.19", "text": "Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace [with me], and blind as Jehovah`s servant?" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ISA-42:20", "verseRef": "Isa.42.20", "text": "Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ISA-42:21", "verseRef": "Isa.42.21", "text": "It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness` sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ISA-42:22", "verseRef": "Isa.42.22", "text": "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 delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ISA-42:23", "verseRef": "Isa.42.23", "text": "Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ISA-42:24", "verseRef": "Isa.42.24", "text": "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ISA-42:25", "verseRef": "Isa.42.25", "text": "Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/42", "book": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }