⁶ “I am the Lord; ^(A)I have called you^[a] in righteousness;
    I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you ^(B)as a covenant for the people,
    ^(C)a light for the nations,

¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; ^(A)I am the first,
    and I am the last.

² Look to Abraham your father
    and to Sarah who bore you;
for ^(A)he was but one when I called him,
    that I might bless him and multiply him.