Isaiah 49:1-7 — Legacy Standard Bible

I Will Give You as a Light of the Nations

49Listen to Me, O ^acoastlands,And pay attention, you peoples from afar.^bYahweh called Me from the womb;From the ¹body of My mother He made My name to be remembered.²He has set My ^amouth like a sharp sword;In the ^bshadow of His hand He has concealed Me;And He has also set Me as a ¹select ^carrow;He has hidden Me in His quiver.³He said to Me, “^aYou are My Servant, Israel,^bIn Whom I will ¹show forth My beautiful glory.”⁴But I said, “I have ^atoiled in vain;I have spent My might for ¹nothing and vanity;Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,And My ^breward with My God.”⁵So now says ^aYahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,To return Jacob back to Him, so that ^bIsrael might be gathered to Him(For I am ^cglorified in the sight of Yahweh,And My God is My ^dstrength),⁶He says, “It is too ¹small a thing that You should be My ServantTo raise up the tribes of Jacob and to cause the ^apreserved ones of Israel to return;I will also give You as a ^blight ²of the nationsSo that My salvation may ³reach to the ^cend of the earth.”⁷Thus says Yahweh, the ^aRedeemer of Israel and its Holy One,To the ^bdespised One,To the One abhorred by the nation,To the Servant of rulers,“^cKings will see and arise,Princes will also ^dbow down,Because of Yahweh who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”