Y respondí: «En vano he trabajado;
    he gastado mis fuerzas sin provecho alguno.
Pero mi justicia está en manos del Señor;
    mi recompensa está con mi Dios».

Y ahora dice el Señor,
    que desde el seno materno me formó para que fuera yo su siervo,
para hacer que Jacob se vuelva a él,
    que Israel se reúna a su alrededor;
porque a los ojos del Señor soy digno de honra
    y mi Dios ha sido mi fortaleza:
«No es gran cosa que seas mi siervo,
    ni que restaures a las tribus de Jacob,
    ni que hagas volver a los de Israel, a quienes he preservado.
Yo te pongo ahora como luz para las naciones,
    a fin de que lleves mi salvación hasta los confines de la tierra».

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(A)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my [a]just reward is with the Lord,
And my [b]work with my God.’ ”

“And now the Lord says,
Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him,
So that Israel (B)is [c]gathered to Him
(For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,
And My God shall be My strength),
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 (C)light to the Gentiles,
That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:4 justice
  2. Isaiah 49:4 recompense
  3. Isaiah 49:5 Qr., DSS, LXX gathered to Him; Kt. not gathered

(A)But I said, “I have labored in vain;
    I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
    and my recompense with my God.”

(B)And now the Lord says,
    he (C)who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him;
    and that Israel might be gathered to him—
for (D)I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
    and my God has become my strength—
he says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
    to raise up the tribes of Jacob
    and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
(E)I will make you (F)as a light for the nations,
    that (G)my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

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