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I Will Give You as a Light of the Nations

49 Listen to Me, O (A)coastlands,
And pay attention, you peoples from afar.
(B)Yahweh called Me from the womb;
From the [a]body of My mother He made My name to be remembered.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:1 Lit inward parts

The Servant of the Lord

49 Listen(A) to me, you islands;(B)
    hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born(C) the Lord called(D) me;
    from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.(E)

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So now says (A)Yahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To return Jacob back to Him, so that (B)Israel might be gathered to Him
(For I am (C)glorified in the sight of Yahweh,
And My God is My (D)strength),

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And now the Lord says—
    he who formed me in the womb(A) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
    and gather Israel(B) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(C) in the eyes of the Lord
    and my God has been my strength(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be

15 For he will be great in the sight of the [a]Lord; and (A)he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit [b]while yet in his mother’s womb.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:15 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 49:5
  2. Luke 1:15 Lit from

15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink,(A) and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit(B) even before he is born.(C)

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