Isaiah 49:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³And he said to me, “You are my servant,
    Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
⁴But I said, “I have labored in vain,
    I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord,
    and my reward with my God.”

⁵And now the Lord says,
    who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him,
    and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
    and my God has become my strength—

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