^{1 Ref} See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

^{2 Ref} He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.

^{3 Ref} He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.

^{4 Ref} His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

^{5 Ref} God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

^{6 Ref} I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:

^{7 Ref} To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

^{8 Ref} I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

^{9 Ref} See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

^{10 Ref} Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.

^{11 Ref} Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

^{12 Ref} Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.