World English Bible
Isaiah 42:6
“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;”
Verse in context — Isaiah 42
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.
Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
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Prophecies of judgment and hope, pointing to the coming Messiah.
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