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Isaiah 49:3-5
New International Version - UK
Isaiah 49:3-5
New International Version - UK
3 He said to me, ‘You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will display my splendour.’
4 But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due to me is in the Lord’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.’
5 And now the Lord says –
he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel to himself,
for I am[a] honoured in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength –
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
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