TSK · Isaiah 42:1

'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

"You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says Yahweh. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says Yahweh, "from henceforth and forever."

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies.

"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.