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Isaiah 49:3-5
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3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
Isra’el, through whom I will show my glory.”

4 But I said, “I have toiled in vain,
spent my strength for nothing, futility.”
Yet my cause is with Adonai,
my reward is with my God.
5 So now Adonai says —
he formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Ya‘akov back to him,
to have Isra’el gathered to him,
so that I will be honored in the sight of Adonai,
my God having become my strength —

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Isaiah 49:3-5
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3 He said to me, “You are my servant,(A)
    Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(B)”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;(C)
    I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(D)
    and my reward(E) is with my God.”(F)

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

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