ISAIAH 49:1-7
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1 Listen to Me, O coastlands,
And pay attention, you peoples from afar.
Yahweh called Me from the womb;
From the body of My mother He made My name to be remembered.
2 He has set My mouth like a sharp sword;
In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;
And He has also set Me as a select arrow;
He has hidden Me in His quiver.
3 He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,
In Whom I will show forth My beautiful glory.”
4 But I said, “I have toiled in vain;
I have spent My might for [d]nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,
And My reward with My God.”5 So now says Yahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To return Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him
(For I am glorified in the sight of Yahweh,
And My God is My strength),
6 He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to cause the preserved ones of Israel to return;
I will also give You as a light [f]of the nations
So that My salvation may [g]reach to the end of the earth.”
7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
To the despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers,
“Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also bow down,
Because of Yahweh who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”Isaiah 49:1-7 LSB