Isaiah 49:1-6

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Salvation Reaches to the Ends of the Earth

49 Listen to Me, you ^(A)islands,
And pay attention, you peoples from afar.
^(B)The Lord called Me from the womb;
From the ^[a]body of My mother He named Me.
²He has made My ^(C)mouth like a sharp sword,
In the ^(D)shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;
And He has also made Me a sharpened ^(E)arrow,
He has hidden Me in His quiver.
³He said to Me, “^(F)You are My Servant, Israel,
^(G)In whom I will show My glory.”
⁴But I said, “I have ^(H)labored in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;
Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My ^(I)reward is with My God.”

⁵And now says ^(J)the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him, so that ^(K)Israel might be gathered to Him
(For I am ^(L)honored in the sight of the Lord,
And My God is My ^(M)strength),
⁶He says, “It is too ^[b]small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ^(N)protected ones of Israel;
I will also make You a ^(O)light ^[c]of the nations
So that My salvation may ^[d]reach to the ^(P)end of the earth.”

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Isaiah 49:1 Lit inward parts
Isaiah 49:6 Lit light
Isaiah 49:6 Or to
Isaiah 49:6 Lit be

Isaiah 50

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God Helps His Servant

50 This is what the Lord says:

“Where is the ^(A)certificate of divorce
By which I have ^(B)sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I ^(C)sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your ^(D)wrongdoings,
And for your ^(E)wrongful acts your mother ^(F)was sent away.
²Why was there ^(G)no one when I came?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My ^(H)hand so short that it cannot redeem?
Or do I have no power to rescue?
Behold, I ^(I)dry up the sea with My rebuke,
I ^(J)turn rivers into a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water,
And die of thirst.
³I ^(K)clothe the heavens with blackness,
And make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴The Lord ^[a]God has given Me the tongue of ^(L)disciples,
So that I may know how to ^(M)sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me ^(N)morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
⁵The Lord God has ^(O)opened My ear,
And I was ^(P)not disobedient,
Nor did I turn back.
⁶I ^(Q)gave My back to those who strike Me,
And My cheeks to those who pull out My beard;
I did not hide My face from insults and spitting.
⁷For the Lord God ^(R)helps Me,
Therefore, I am ^(S)not disgraced;
Therefore, I have made My face like ^(T)flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
⁸He who ^(U)vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us ^(V)stand up to each other.
Who has a case against Me?
Let him approach Me.
⁹Behold, ^(W)the Lord God helps Me;
^(X)Who is he who condemns Me?
Behold, ^(Y)they will all wear out like a garment;
A moth will eat them.
¹⁰Who is among you who fears the Lord,
Who obeys the voice of His ^(Z)servant,
Who ^(AA)walks in darkness and has no light?
Let him ^(AB)trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
¹¹Behold, all you who ^(AC)kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with flaming arrows,
Walk in the light of your fire
And among the flaming arrows you have set ablaze.
This you will have from My hand:
You will ^(AD)lie down in torment.

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Isaiah 50:4 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

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The Exalted Servant

¹³Behold, My ^(A)Servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and ^[a]greatly ^(B)exalted.
¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His ^(C)appearance was marred beyond that of a man,
And His form beyond the sons of mankind.
¹⁵So ^[b]He will ^(D)sprinkle many nations,
Kings will ^(E)shut their mouths on account of Him;
For ^(F)what they had not been told, they will see,
And what they had not heard, they will understand.

The Suffering Servant

53 ^(G)Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He grew up before Him like a ^(H)tender ^[c]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has ^(I)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
³He was ^(J)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of ^[d]great pain and ^(K)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was ^(L)despised, and we had no ^(M)regard for Him.

⁴However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(N)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by ^(O)God, and humiliated.
⁵But He was ^[e]pierced for ^(P)our offenses,
He was crushed for ^(Q)our wrongdoings;
The ^(R)punishment for our ^[f]well-being was laid upon Him,
And by ^(S)His wounds we are healed.
⁶All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To ^[g]fall on Him.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(T)open His mouth;
^(U)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the ^[h]living
^(V)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
⁹And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a ^(W)rich man in His death,
^(X)Because He had ^(Y)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰But the Lord desired
To ^(Z)crush Him, ^[i]^(AA)causing Him grief;
If He renders ^[j]Himself as a guilt ^(AB)offering,
He will see ^(AC)His ^[k]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^[l]good ^(AD)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
¹¹As a result of the ^[m]anguish of His soul,
He will ^[n]^(AE)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(AF)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will ^(AG)bear their wrongdoings.
¹²Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(AH)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His ^[o]^(AI)life unto death,
And was ^(AJ)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself ^(AK)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.