Isaiah 49:3-6
New International Version
3 He said to me, “You are my servant,(A)
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(B)”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;(C)
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(D)
and my reward(E) is with my God.”(F)
5 And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb(G) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel(H) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(I) in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength(J)—
6 he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant(K)
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.(L)
I will also make you a light(M) for the Gentiles,(N)
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”(O)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be
Isaiah 49:3-6
King James Version
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
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