Isaiah 49:3-7

English Standard Version

³And he said to me, “You are my servant,
    Israel, ^(A)in whom I will be glorified.”^[a]
⁴^(B)But I said, “I have labored in vain;
    I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
    and my recompense with my God.”

⁵^(C)And now the Lord says,
    he ^(D)who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him;
    and that Israel might be gathered to him—
for ^(E)I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
    and my God has become my strength—
⁶he says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
    to raise up the tribes of Jacob
    and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
^(F)I will make you ^(G)as a light for the nations,
    that ^(H)my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

⁷Thus says the Lord,
    ^(I)the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
^(J)to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
    the servant of rulers:
^(K)“Kings shall see and arise;
    princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
    the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”