1   Beholde, ^note my seruaunt: ^note I will stay vpon him: mine elect, in whom my soule ^note deliteth: I haue Christes humilitie. put my Spirit vp&obar; him: he shal bring forth ^note iudgement to the Gentiles.

2   He shall not ^note crie, nor lift vp, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streete.

3   A ^note bruised reede shall hee not breake, and the smoking ^note flaxe shall he not quench: he shall bring foorth iudgement in ^note trueth.

4   He shall not faile nor be discouraged till he haue ^note set iudgement in the earth: and the ^note yles shall waite for his lawe.

5   Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)

6   I the Lorde haue called thee in ^note righteousnesse, and will hold ^note thine hand, and I will keepe thee, and giue thee for a ^note couenant of the people, and for a light of the Gentiles,

7   That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.

8   I am the Lorde, this is my Name, and my ^note glory wil I not giue to another, neither my praise to grauen images.

9   Beholde, the former thinges are ^note come to passe, and newe things doe I declare: before they come foorth, I tell you of them.

10   Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song, and his praise from the ende of the earth: yee that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein: the yles and the inhabitants thereof.

11   Let the wildernesse and the cities thereof lift vp their voyce, the townes that ^note Kedar doeth inhabite: let the inhabitants of the rocks sing: let them shoute from the toppe of the mountaines.

12   Let them giue glorie vnto the Lorde, and declare his praise in the ylands.

13   The Lord shal go forth as a ^note gyant: he shal stirre vp his courage like a man of warre: he shall shout and crie, and shall preuaile against his enemies.

14   I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe: nowe will I crie like a ^note trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure at once.

15   I will make waste mountaines, and hilles, and drie vp all their herbes, and I will make the floods ylands, and I will drie vp the pooles.

16   ¶2; And I will bring the ^note blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.

17   They shall be turned backe: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen images, and say to the molten images, Yee are our gods.

18   ¶2; Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.

19   Who is blinde but my ^note seruaunt? or deafe as my ^note messenger, that I sent? who is blind as the ^note perfit, and blinde as the Lordes seruant?

20   Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?

Gods loue toward his.

21   The Lorde is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the Lawe, and exalt it.

22   But this people is ^note robbed & spoiled, and shalbe all snared in dungeons, and they shalbe hid in prison houses: they shall be for a pray, and none shall deliuer: a spoile, and none shall say, ^note Restore.

23   Who among you shall hearken to this, and take heede, and heare for ^note afterwardes?

24   Who gaue Iaakob for a spoyle, and Israel to the robbers? Did not þe; Lorde, because we haue sinned against him? for they woulde not walke in his waies, neither be obedient vnto his Lawe.

25   Therefore hee hath powred vpon him his fierce wrath, and the strength of battell: and it set him on fire round about, and he knewe not, and it burned him vp, yet he considered not.

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