Isaiah 49:1 - 49:13 - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 49:1 - 49:13

I Will Give You as a Light of the Nations

Listen to Me, O coastlands,

And pay attention, you peoples from afar.

Yahweh called Me from the womb;

From the body of My mother He made My name to be remembered.

He has set My mouth like a sharp sword;

In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;

And He has also set Me as a select arrow;

He has hidden Me in His quiver.

He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,

In Whom I will show forth My beautiful glory.”

But I said, “I have toiled in vain;

I have spent My might for nothing and vanity;

Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,

And My reward with My God.”

So now says Yahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,

To return Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him

(For I am glorified in the sight of Yahweh,

And My God is My strength),

He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to cause the preserved ones of Israel to return;

I will also give You as a light of the nations

So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,

To the despised One,

To the One abhorred by the nation,

To the Servant of rulers,

“Kings will see and arise,

Princes will also bow down,

Because of Yahweh who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

8 Thus says Yahweh,

“In an acceptable time I have answered You,

And in a day of salvation I have helped You;

And I will guard You and give You for a covenant of the people,

To establish the land, to make them inherit the desolate inheritance;

Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’

To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’

Along the roads they will feed,

And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

They will not hunger or thirst,

Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down;

For He who has compassion on them will guide them

And will lead them to springs of water.

I will set all My mountains as a road,

And My highways will be raised up.

Behold, these will come from afar;

And behold, these will come from the north and from the west,

And these from the land of Sinim.”

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!

Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!

For Yahweh has comforted His people

And will have compassion on His afflicted.