Isaiah Chapter 42

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 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. My servant... Christ, who according to his humanity, is the servant of God.
2 He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad.
3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.
5 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.
6 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:
7 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.
8 I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.
9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

10 Sing ye to the Lord 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.
11 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. Petra... A city that gives name to Arabia Petraea.
12 They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands.
13 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.

14 I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.
19 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?
20 Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?
21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.
22 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.
23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
24 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.
25 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.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Ecce servus meus, suscipiam eum;
electus meus, complacuit sibi in illo anima mea:
dedi spiritum meum super eum:
judicium gentibus proferet.
2 Non clamabit, neque accipiet personam,
nec audietur vox ejus foris.
3 Calamum quassatum non conteret,
et linum fumigans non extinguet:
in veritate educet judicium.
4 Non erit tristis, neque turbulentus,
donec ponat in terra judicium;
et legem ejus insulæ exspectabunt.
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:
6 Ego Dominus vocavi te in justitia,
et apprehendi manum tuam,
et servavi te:
et dedi te in fœdus populi,
in lucem gentium,
7 ut aperires oculos cæcorum,
et educeres de conclusione vinctum,
de domo carceris sedentes in tenebris.
8 Ego Dominus,
hoc est nomen meum;
gloriam meam alteri non dabo,
et laudem meam sculptilibus.
9 Quæ prima fuerunt, ecce venerunt;
nova quoque ego annuntio:
antequam oriantur,
audita vobis faciam.

10 Cantate Domino canticum novum,
laus ejus ab extremis terræ,
qui descenditis in mare, et plenitudo ejus;
insulæ, et habitatores earum.
11 Sublevetur desertum et civitates ejus.
In domibus habitabit Cedar:
laudate, habitatores petræ;
de vertice montium clamabunt.
12 Ponent Domino gloriam,
et laudem ejus in insulis nuntiabunt.
13 Dominus sicut fortis egredietur,
sicut vir præliator suscitabit zelum;
vociferabitur, et clamabit:
super inimicos suos confortabitur.

14 Tacui semper,
silui, patiens fui:
sicut parturiens loquar;
dissipabo, et absorbebo simul.
15 Desertos faciam montes et colles,
et omne gramen eorum exsiccabo;
et ponam flumina in insulas,
et stagna arefaciam.
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.
17 Conversi sunt retrorsum, confundantur confusione,
qui confidunt in sculptili;
qui dicunt conflatili:
Vos dii nostri.
18 Surdi, audite,
et cæci, intuemini ad videndum.
19 Quis cæcus, nisi servus meus;
et surdus, nisi ad quem nuntios meos misi?
quis cæcus, nisi qui venundatus est?
et quis cæcus, nisi servus Domini?
20 Qui vides multa, nonne custodies?
qui apertas habes aures, nonne audies?
21 Et Dominus voluit ut sanctificaret eum,
et magnificaret legem, et extolleret.
22 Ipse autem populus direptus, et vastatus;
laqueus juvenum omnes,
et in domibus carcerum absconditi sunt;
facti sunt in rapinam, nec est qui eruat;
in direptionem, nec est qui dicat: Redde.
23 Quis est in vobis qui audiat hoc,
attendat, et auscultet futura?
24 Quis dedit in direptionem Jacob,
et Israël vastantibus?
nonne Dominus ipse, cui peccavimus?
Et noluerunt in viis ejus ambulare,
et non audierunt legem ejus.
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.

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