41:18. I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters. 41:19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together: The thorn. . .In Hebrew, the shitta, or setim, a tree resembling the white thorn. 41:20. That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 41:21. Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob. 41:22. Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. 41:23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together. 41:24. Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination. 41:25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay. 41:26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words. 41:27. The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist. 41:28. And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word. 41:29. Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity. Isaias Chapter 42 The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The blindness and reprobation of the Jews. 42:1. Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. My servant. . .Christ, who according to his humanity, is the servant of God. 42:2. He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad. 42:3. The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 42:4. He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law. 42:5. Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.