Isaiah 49:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶ he says,
‘It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
    to raise up the tribes of Jacob
    and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will give you as a light to the nations,
    that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.’

⁸ Thus says the Lord:
In a time of favour I have answered you,
    on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you
    as a covenant to the people,^[a]
to establish the land,
    to apportion the desolate heritages;