Isaiæ 42
1 Ecce servus meus, suscipiam eum: electus meus, complacuit sibi in illo anima mea: dedi spiritum meum super eum, iudicium gentibus proferet.
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
2 Non clamabit, neque accipiet personam, nec audietur vox eius foris.
He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
3 Calamum quassatum non conteret, et linum fumigans non extinguet: in veritate educet iudicium.
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
4 Non erit tristis, neque turbulentus, donec ponat in terra iudicium: et legem eius insulæ expectabunt.
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
5 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus creans cælos, et extendens eos: formans terram, et quæ germinant ex ea: dans flatum populo, qui est super eam, et spiritum calcantibus eam.
God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
6 Ego Dominus vocavi te in iustitia, et apprehendi manum tuam, et servavi te. Et dedi te in fœdus populi, in lucem Gentium:
“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,
7 Ut aperires oculos cæcorum, et educeres de conclusione vinctum, de domo carceris sedentes in tenebris.
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
8 Ego Dominus, hoc est nomen meum: gloriam meam alteri non dabo, et laudem meam sculptilibus.
“I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
9 Quæ prima fuerunt, ecce venerunt: nova quoque ego annuncio: antequam oriantur, audita vobis faciam.
Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
10 Cantate Domino canticum novum, laus eius ab extremis terræ: qui descenditis in mare, et plenitudo eius, insulæ, et habitatores earum.
Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
11 Sublevetur desertum, et civitates eius: in domibus habitabit Cedar: laudate habitatores Petræ, de vertice montium clamabunt.
Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12 Ponent Domino gloriam, et laudem eius in insulis nunciabunt.
Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 Dominus sicut fortis egredietur, sicut vir præliator suscitabit zelum: vociferabitur, et clamabit: super inimicos suos confortabitur.
The LORD will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
14 Tacui semper, silui, patiens fui, sicut parturiens loquar: dissipabo, et absorbebo simul.
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
15 Desertos faciam montes, et colles, et omne gramen eorum exiccabo: et ponam flumina in insulas, et stagna arefaciam.
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
16 Et ducam cæcos in viam, quam nesciunt, et in semitis, quas ignoraverunt, ambulare eos faciam: ponam tenebras coram eis in lucem, et prava in recta: hæc verba feci eis, et non dereliqui eos.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17 Conversi sunt retrorsum: confundantur confusione qui confidunt in sculptili, qui dicunt conflatili: Vos dii nostri.
“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
18 Surdi audite, et cæci intuemini ad videndum.
“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Quis cæcus, nisi servus meus? Et surdus, nisi ad quem nuncios meos misi? Quis cæcus, nisi qui venundatus est? Et quis cæcus, nisi servus Domini?
Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant?
20 Qui vides multa, nonne custodies? Qui apertas habes aures, nonne audies?
You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
21 Et Dominus voluit ut sanctificaret eum, et magnificaret legem, et extolleret.
It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
22 Ipse autem populus direptus, et vastatus: laqueus iuvenum omnes, et in domibus carcerum absconditi sunt: facti sunt in rapinam, nec est qui eruat: in direptionem, nec est qui dicat: Redde.
But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
23 Quis est in vobis qui audiat hoc, attendat et auscultet futura?
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Quis dedit in direptionem Iacob, et Israel vastantibus? Nonne Dominus ipse, cui peccavimus? Et noluerunt in viis eius ambulare, et non audierunt legem eius.
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
25 Et effudit super eum indignationem furoris sui, et forte bellum, et combussit eum in circuitu, et non cognovit: et succendit eum, et non intellexit.
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
