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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my souldelighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forthjudgment to the Gentiles.
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Thus saithGod the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that givethbreath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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Sing unto the LORD a newsong, 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.
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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rocksing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will makedarknesslightbefore them, and crooked thingsstraight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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But this is a peoplerobbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes*, and they are hid in prisonhouses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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Who gaveJacob for a spoil*, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
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Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.