20He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.


In Context

17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

18 |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.

19 He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

21 In his name, the nations will hope.|

22 Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

Matthew 12:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:20The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, until he bring forth judgment unto victory;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he shall send forth judgment to victory.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment to victory.