B'reisheet Haftarah

YESHAYAHU 42:5 - 43:10

Isa 42:5 Thus says Elohim, YHVH, who created the heavens and spread them out, who stretched out the earth and all that grows from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it:
Isa 42:6 "I, YHVH, called you righteously, I took hold of you by the hand, I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people, to be a light for the Goyim,
Isa 42:7 so that you can open blind eyes, free the prisoners from confinement, those living in darkness from the dungeon.
Isa 42:8 I am YHVH; that is my name. I yield my glory to no one else, nor my praise to any idol.
Isa 42:9 See how the former predictions come true; and now new things do I declare — before they sprout I tell you about them."
Isa 42:10 Sing to YHVH a new song! Let his praise be sung from the ends of the earth by those sailing the sea and by everything in it, by the coastlands and those living there.
Isa 42:11 Let the desert and its cities raise their voices, the villages where Kedar lives; let those living in Sela shout for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops!
Isa 42:12 Let them give glory to YHVH and proclaim his praise in the coastlands.
Isa 42:13 YHVH will go out like a soldier, like a soldier roused to the fury of battle; he will shout, yes, he raises the battle cry; as he triumphs over his foes.
Isa 42:14 "For a long time I have held my peace, I have been silent, restrained myself. Now I will shriek like a woman in labor, panting and gasping for air.
Isa 42:15 I will devastate mountains and hills, wither all their vegetation, turn the rivers into islands and dry up the lakes.
Isa 42:16 The blind I will lead on a road they don't know, on roads they don't know I will lead them; I will turn darkness to light before them, and straighten their twisted paths. These are things I will do without fail.
Isa 42:17 Those who trust in idols, who say to statues, 'You are our Elohim,' will be repulsed in utter shame.
Isa 42:18 Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind! — so that you will see!
Isa 42:19 Who is as blind as my servant, or as deaf as the messenger I send? Who is as blind as the one I rewarded, as blind as the servant of YHVH?"
Isa 42:20 You see much but don't pay attention; you open your ears, but you don't listen.
Isa 42:21 YHVH was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to make the Torah great and glorious.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people pillaged and plundered, all trapped in holes and sequestered in prisons. They are there to be plundered, with no one to rescue them; there to be pillaged, and no one says, "Return them!"
Isa 42:23 Which of you will listen to this? Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?
Isa 42:24 Who gave Ya`akov to be pillaged, Yisra'el to the plunderers? Didn't YHVH, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they refused to walk, he whose Torah they did not obey?
Isa 42:25 This is why he poured on him his blazing anger as well as the fury of battle — it wrapped him in flames, yet he learned nothing; it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.
Isa 43:1 But now this is what YHVH says, he who created you, Ya`akov, he who formed you, Yisra'el: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I am calling you by your name; you are mine.
Isa 43:2 When you pass through water, I will be with you; when you pass through rivers, they will not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire, you will not be scorched — the flame will not burn you.
Isa 43:3 For I am YHVH, your Elohim, the Holy One of Yisra'el, your Savior — I have given Mitsrayim as your ransom, Ethiopia and S'va for you.
Isa 43:4 Because I regard you as valued and honored, and because I love you. For you I will give people, nations in exchange for your life.
Isa 43:5 Don't be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east, and I will gather you from the west;
Isa 43:6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth,
Isa 43:7 everyone who bears my name, whom I created for my glory — I formed him, yes, I made him.' "
Isa 43:8 Bring forward the people who are blind but have eyes, also the deaf who have ears.
Isa 43:9 All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled. Who among them can proclaim this and reveal what happened in the past? Let them bring their witnesses to justify themselves, so that others, on hearing, can say, "That's true."
Isa 43:10 "You are my witnesses," says YHVH, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you can know and trust me and understand that I am he — no El was formed before me, nor will any be after me.