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Isaiah 49
New King James Version
Isaiah 49
New King James Version
The Servant, the Light to the Gentiles
49 “Listen, (A)O coastlands, to Me,
And take heed, you peoples from afar!
(B)The Lord has called Me from the womb;
From the [a]matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.
2 And He has made (C)My mouth like a sharp sword;
(D)In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me,
And made Me (E)a polished shaft;
In His quiver He has hidden Me.”
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.”
8 Thus says the Lord:
“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.
11 (S)I will make each of My mountains a road,
And My highways shall be elevated.
12 Surely (T)these shall come from afar;
Look! Those from the north and the west,
And these from the land of Sinim.”
13 (U)Sing, O heavens!
Be joyful, O earth!
And break out in singing, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And will have mercy on His afflicted.
God Will Remember Zion
14 (V)But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can(W) a woman forget her nursing child,
[j]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(X)Yet I will not forget you.
16 See, (Y)I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me.
17 Your [k]sons shall make haste;
Your destroyers and those who laid you waste
Shall go away from you.
18 (Z)Lift up your eyes, look around and see;
All these gather together and come to you.
As I live,” says the Lord,
“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all (AA)as an ornament,
And bind them on you as a bride does.
19 “For your waste and desolate places,
And the land of your destruction,
(AB)Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 (AC)The children you will have,
(AD)After you have lost the others,
Will say again in your ears,
‘The place is too small for me;
Give me a place where I may dwell.’
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have lost my children and am desolate,
A captive, and wandering to and fro?
And who has brought these up?
There I was, left alone;
But these, where were they?’ ”
22 (AE)Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,
And set up My [l]standard for the peoples;
They shall bring your sons in their [m]arms,
And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23 (AF)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And (AG)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(AH)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”
25 But thus says the Lord:
“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
And the prey of the terrible be delivered;
For I will contend with him who contends with you,
And I will save your children.
26 I will (AJ)feed those who oppress you with their own flesh,
And they shall be drunk with their own (AK)blood as with sweet wine.
All flesh (AL)shall know
That I, the Lord, am your Savior,
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:1 Lit. inward parts
- Isaiah 49:4 justice
- Isaiah 49:4 recompense
- Isaiah 49:5 Qr., DSS, LXX gathered to Him; Kt. not gathered
- Isaiah 49:7 Lit. his or its
- Isaiah 49:7 Lit. who is despised of soul
- Isaiah 49:8 favorable
- Isaiah 49:8 keep
- Isaiah 49:8 inheritances
- Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion
- Isaiah 49:17 DSS, LXX, Tg., Vg. builders
- Isaiah 49:22 banner
- Isaiah 49:22 Lit. bosom
- Isaiah 49:24 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, Syr., Vg. of the mighty; LXX unjustly
I-sai-a 49
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
I-sai-a 49
Vietnamese Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Thượng Đế gọi đầy tớ đặc biệt của Ngài
49 Hỡi các dân ở gần biển, hãy nghe ta.
Hỡi các dân tộc ở xa xôi, hãy lắng tai.
Trước khi ta sinh ra, CHÚA đã gọi ta để phục vụ Ngài.
CHÚA đã đặt tên cho ta từ khi ta còn nằm trong lòng mẹ.
2 Ngài khiến lưỡi ta như gươm bén.
Ngài giấu ta trong lòng bàn tay Ngài.
Ngài làm cho ta như mũi tên nhọn.
Ngài giấu ta trong bao đựng tên của Ngài.
3 Ngài bảo ta, “Hỡi Ít-ra-en, ngươi là tôi tớ ta.
Ta sẽ làm những việc kỳ diệu qua ngươi.”
4 Nhưng ta bảo, “Tôi đã làm việc cực nhọc không công;
Tôi đã ráng sức mà chẳng làm được việc gì hữu dụng.
CHÚA sẽ quyết định việc làm nào của ta có giá trị.
Thượng Đế sẽ định phần thưởng cho ta.”
5 Từ trong bụng mẹ ta CHÚA đã khiến ta làm đầy tớ Ngài,
để hướng dẫn dân Gia-cốp trở về cùng Ngài,
để Ít-ra-en được tập họp về cùng Ngài.
CHÚA sẽ tôn trọng ta,
Ta sẽ nhận được sức lực từ Thượng Đế.
6 Nay Ngài bảo ta, “Ngươi là đầy tớ quan trọng của ta
để mang các chi tộc của Gia-cốp trở về,
để mang dân sót lại của Ít-ra-en trở về.
Nhưng quan trọng hơn nữa
là ta sẽ khiến ngươi làm ngọn đèn cho các dân tộc
để tỏ cho mọi người trên thế gian biết con đường cứu rỗi.”
7 CHÚA Đấng cứu ngươi là Đấng Thánh của Ít-ra-en.
Ngài phán cùng kẻ bị dân chúng ghét,
phán với tôi tớ của các quan quyền.
Ngài phán như sau: “Các vua sẽ nhìn thấy ngươi
và sẽ tôn trọng ngươi,
Các đại lãnh tụ sẽ cúi lạy trước mặt ngươi,
Vì CHÚA là Đấng đáng tin cậy.
Ngài là Đấng Thánh của Ít-ra-en, Đấng đã lựa chọn ngươi.”
Ngày Cứu Rỗi
8 Đây là điều CHÚA phán:
“Ta sẽ nghe lời khẩn nguyện của ngươi vào đúng lúc.
Vào ngày cứu rỗi ta sẽ giúp đỡ ngươi.
Ta sẽ bảo vệ ngươi,
ngươi sẽ là dấu hiệu của giao ước ta với dân chúng.
Ngươi sẽ mang dân chúng trở về xứ mình
và hoàn trả đất hiện đang bị hư hại về cho nguyên chủ.
9 Ngươi sẽ bảo các tù nhân, ‘Hãy ra khỏi ngục.’
Và nói với những kẻ đang ở trong tối tăm rằng,
‘Hãy bước ra ánh sáng.’
Dân chúng sẽ ăn bên đường,
và dù trên đồi trọc người ta vẫn tìm được thực phẩm.
10 Họ sẽ không còn đói khát nữa.
Ánh nắng nóng hay gió sa mạc
cũng sẽ không làm hại họ.
Thượng Đế, Đấng an ủi họ sẽ dắt dẫn họ
và đưa họ đến cạnh suối nước.
11 Ta sẽ biến núi đồi thành đường đi,
và lối đi sẽ được nâng lên.
12 Nầy, từ khắp nơi xa xôi dân chúng đang đến cùng ta,
từ phía Bắc và phía Tây,
từ A-xu-an thuộc miền Nam Ai-cập.”
13 Hỡi trời và đất, hãy vui mừng lên.
Hỡi núi đồi hãy reo vui,
vì CHÚA yên ủi dân Ngài
và tỏ lòng thương xót những kẻ bị khốn khổ.
Giê-ru-sa-lem cùng con cái mình
14 Nhưng Giê-ru-sa-lem nói,
“CHÚA đã bỏ ta; Ngài quên ta rồi.”
15 CHÚA đáp, “Đàn bà có thể nào quên cho con bú không?
Có thể nào nàng không có chút tình cảm gì
đối với đứa bé mình sinh ra hay sao?
Dù đàn bà quên con mình,
Ta cũng sẽ chẳng quên ngươi.
16 Xem nầy, ta đã viết tên ngươi trên bàn tay ta.
Ta lúc nào cũng tưởng nhớ đến các tường thành ngươi [a].
17 Những kẻ xây dựng ngươi sẽ đông hơn kẻ tiêu diệt ngươi,
còn những dân đã đánh thắng ngươi sẽ bỏ đi.
18 Hãy ngước lên và nhìn quanh ngươi.
Tất cả các con cái ngươi đang tập họp lại
để trở về cùng ngươi.”
CHÚA phán, “Như ta hằng sống,
con cái ngươi sẽ như nữ trang
mà cô dâu đeo vào một cách kiêu hãnh.
19 Ngươi đã bị tiêu diệt và bị đánh bại,
đất đai ngươi đã trở nên vô dụng.
Nhưng nay ngươi sẽ có đông dân
đến nỗi đất không đủ chỗ chứa,
Còn những kẻ đã tiêu diệt ngươi sẽ cuốn gói đi xa.
20 Con cái ngươi sinh ra trong khi ngươi đang âu sầu,
sẽ nói cùng ngươi, ‘Nơi nầy quá chật chội.
Hãy cho chúng tôi một nơi khác rộng hơn để sống.’
21 Rồi ngươi sẽ tự nhủ,
‘Ai cho tôi đàn con nầy?
Tôi vốn buồn bã và không sinh sản được,
bị đánh bại và phân ly khỏi dân tộc tôi.
Vậy ai nuôi những đứa con nầy?
Tôi bị bỏ rơi một mình.
Các đứa con nầy từ đâu ra?’”
22 CHÚA tôi phán như sau:
“Nầy, ta đã giơ tay lên làm dấu cho muôn dân;
ta giương cờ lên cho mọi người trông thấy.
Rồi chúng nó sẽ mang các con trai ngươi về trong cánh tay mình,
và sẽ vác các con gái ngươi trên vai.
23 Các vua sẽ dạy dỗ con cái ngươi,
và các công chúa sẽ chăm sóc chúng nó.
Họ sẽ cúi lạy trước mặt ngươi
và hôn đất nơi chân ngươi.
Rồi ngươi sẽ biết rằng ta là CHÚA.
Ai tin cậy ta sẽ không thất vọng.”
24 Có ai đoạt lấy chiến lợi phẩm
mà binh sĩ chiếm được nơi chiến trận không?
Nếu một tù nhân bị canh phòng bởi một chiến sĩ hùng mạnh,
thì liệu nó có thể trốn thoát được không?
25 CHÚA phán như sau:
“Các tù binh sẽ bị cướp khỏi tay các binh sĩ dũng mãnh.
Những người bị các kẻ hung ác bắt sẽ trốn thoát.
Ta sẽ đánh các kẻ thù ngươi,
và sẽ giải cứu con cái ngươi.
26 Ta sẽ bắt những kẻ quấy rối ngươi ăn thịt của mình.
Huyết chúng sẽ làm rượu khiến chúng no say sưa.
Rồi mọi người sẽ biết Ta, CHÚA, Đấng giải cứu ngươi;
Ta là Đấng Toàn Năng của Gia-cốp giải cứu ngươi.”
Footnotes
- I-sai-a 49:16 Ta lúc nào … tường thành ngươi Hay “Ta lúc nào cũng thấy hình ảnh ngươi.” Đây là một lối chơi chữ. Chữ “hình ảnh” trong tiếng Hê-bơ-rơ cũng có nghĩa là “tường thành.”
Isaiah 49
New International Version
Isaiah 49
New International Version
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)
2 He made my mouth(F) like a sharpened sword,(G)
in the shadow of his hand(H) he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow(I)
and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant,(J)
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(K)”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;(L)
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(M)
and my reward(N) is with my God.”(O)
5 And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb(P) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel(Q) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(R) in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength(S)—
6 he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant(T)
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.(U)
I will also make you a light(V) for the Gentiles,(W)
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”(X)
7 This is what the Lord says—
the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel(Y)—
to him who was despised(Z) and abhorred by the nation,
to the servant of rulers:
“Kings(AA) will see you and stand up,
princes will see and bow down,(AB)
because of the Lord, who is faithful,(AC)
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen(AD) you.”
Restoration of Israel
8 This is what the Lord says:
“In the time of my favor(AE) I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;(AF)
I will keep(AG) you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,(AH)
to restore the land(AI)
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,(AJ)
9 to say to the captives,(AK) ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness,(AL) ‘Be free!’
“They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.(AM)
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,(AN)
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.(AO)
He who has compassion(AP) on them will guide(AQ) them
and lead them beside springs(AR) of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways(AS) will be raised up.(AT)
12 See, they will come from afar(AU)—
some from the north, some from the west,(AV)
some from the region of Aswan.[b]”
13 Shout for joy,(AW) you heavens;
rejoice, you earth;(AX)
burst into song, you mountains!(AY)
For the Lord comforts(AZ) his people
and will have compassion(BA) on his afflicted ones.(BB)
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child(BE) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!(BF)
16 See, I have engraved(BG) you on the palms of my hands;
your walls(BH) are ever before me.
17 Your children hasten back,
and those who laid you waste(BI) depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your children gather(BJ) and come to you.
As surely as I live,(BK)” declares the Lord,
“you will wear(BL) them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(BM)
and your land laid waste,(BN)
now you will be too small for your people,(BO)
and those who devoured(BP) you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.’(BQ)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who bore me these?(BR)
I was bereaved(BS) and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.(BT)
Who brought these(BU) up?
I was left(BV) all alone,(BW)
but these—where have they come from?’”
22 This is what the Sovereign Lord(BX) says:
“See, I will beckon to the nations,
I will lift up my banner(BY) to the peoples;
they will bring(BZ) your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their hips.(CA)
23 Kings(CB) will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.(CC)
They will bow down(CD) before you with their faces to the ground;
they will lick the dust(CE) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;(CF)
those who hope(CG) in me will not be disappointed.(CH)”
25 But this is what the Lord says:
“Yes, captives(CJ) will be taken from warriors,(CK)
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;(CL)
I will contend with those who contend with you,(CM)
and your children I will save.(CN)
26 I will make your oppressors(CO) eat(CP) their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood,(CQ) as with wine.
Then all mankind will know(CR)
that I, the Lord, am your Savior,(CS)
your Redeemer,(CT) the Mighty One of Jacob.(CU)”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be
- Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim
- Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous
Isaiah 49
King James Version
Isaiah 49
King James Version
49 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
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