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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 49
49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, all of you people, from
far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother
has he made mention of my name.
49:2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has
he hid me;
49:3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will
be glorified.
49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and
my work with my God.
49:5 And now, says 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.
49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel:
I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation
unto the end of the earth.
49:7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation detests, 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 you.
49:8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and
in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give
you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit
the desolate heritages;
49:9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are
in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
shall be in all high places.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
sun strike them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by
the springs of water shall he guide them.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall
be exalted.
49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north
and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have
mercy upon his afflicted.
49:14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten
me.
49:15 Can a woman forget her nursing infant, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not
forget you.
49:16 Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls
are continually before me.
49:17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that
made you waste shall go out of you.
49:18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves
together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe
you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride
does.
49:19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.
49:20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other,
shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place
to me that I may dwell.
49:21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has begotten me these,
seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing
back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;
these, where had they been?
49:22 Thus says 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 your
sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
49:23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your
nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the
earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am
the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered?
49:25 But thus says 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 contends with you, and I will save your children.
49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you 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 your Saviour and your Redeemer, the
mighty One of Jacob.
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