³ “And He said to me,
^(F)‘You are My servant, O Israel,
^(G)In whom I will be glorified.’
^4 (H)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my ^[b]just reward is with the Lord,
And my ^[c]work with my God.’ ”

⁵ “And now the Lord says,
Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him,
So that Israel ^(I)is ^[d]gathered to Him
(For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,
And My God shall be My strength),
⁶ 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 ^(J)light to the Gentiles,
That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

⁷ Thus says the Lord,
The Redeemer of Israel, ^[e]their Holy One,
^(K)To Him ^[f]whom man despises,
To Him whom the nation abhors,
To the Servant of rulers:
^(L)“Kings shall see and arise,
Princes also shall worship,
Because of the Lord who is faithful,
The Holy One of Israel;
And He has chosen You.”

“In an ^(M)acceptable^[g] time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will ^[h]preserve You ^(N)and give You
As a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate ^[i]heritages;
⁹ That You may say ^(O)to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’

“They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.
¹⁰ They shall neither ^(P)hunger nor thirst,
^(Q)Neither heat nor sun shall strike them;
For He who has mercy on them ^(R)will lead them,
Even by the springs of water He will guide them.

⁴ And they shall ^(K)rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
^5 (L)Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
^6 (M)But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
^(N)You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
^7 (O)Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

⁸ “For ^(P)I, the Lord, love justice;
^(Q)I hate robbery ^[c]for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
^(R)And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
⁹ Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
^(S)That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

^10 (T)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For ^(U)He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
^(V)As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause ^(W)righteousness and ^(X)praise to spring forth before all the nations.

^(D)“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”