⁵ Thus says God the Lord,
^(E)Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
^(F)Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:
⁶ “I,^(G) the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You ^(H)and give You as a covenant to the people,
As ^(I)a light to the Gentiles,
^7 (J)To open blind eyes,
To ^(K)bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in ^(L)darkness from the prison house.
⁸ I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My ^(M)glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.

³ “And He said to me,
^(F)‘You are My servant, O Israel,
^(G)In whom I will be glorified.’
^4 (H)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my ^[b]just reward is with the Lord,
And my ^[c]work with my God.’ ”

⁵ “And now the Lord says,
Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him,
So that Israel ^(I)is ^[d]gathered to Him
(For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,
And My God shall be My strength),
⁶ Indeed He says,
‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob,
And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;
I will also give You as a ^(J)light to the Gentiles,
That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

⁷ Thus says the Lord,
The Redeemer of Israel, ^[e]their Holy One,
^(K)To Him ^[f]whom man despises,
To Him whom the nation abhors,
To the Servant of rulers:
^(L)“Kings shall see and arise,
Princes also shall worship,
Because of the Lord who is faithful,
The Holy One of Israel;
And He has chosen You.”

“In an ^(M)acceptable^[g] time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will ^[h]preserve You ^(N)and give You
As a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate ^[i]heritages;
⁹ That You may say ^(O)to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’

“They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

⁴ “The^(A) Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is ^(B)weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned.
⁵ The Lord God ^(C)has opened My ear;
And I was not ^(D)rebellious,
Nor did I turn away.
^6 (E)I gave My back to those who struck Me,
And ^(F)My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and ^(G)spitting.

⁷ “For the Lord God will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore ^(H)I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
^8 (I)He is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together.
Who is ^[a]My adversary?
Let him come near Me.
⁹ Surely the Lord God will help Me;
Who is he who will condemn Me?
^(J)Indeed they will all grow old like a garment;
^(K)The moth will eat them up.