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God Speaks about the Servant

This is what God says—
    the God[a] who created the heavens
        and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and its produce,
    who gives breath to the people on it
        and life[b] to those who walk in it:
“I’ve[c] called you in righteousness.
    I’ll take hold of your hand.
I’ll preserve you and appoint you
    as a covenant to the people,[d]
        as a light for the nations,
to open blind eyes
    and to bring out those who are bound[e] from their cells,
        and[f] those sitting in darkness from prison.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector reads and; MT reads the Lord
  2. Isaiah 42:5 Lit. spirit
  3. Isaiah 42:6 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsah MT read I, the Lord, have; LXX reads I, the Lord God, have
  4. Isaiah 42:6 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsah reads as an everlasting covenant
  5. Isaiah 42:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsah MT read out prisoners
  6. Isaiah 42:7 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsah MT lack and