Isaiah 49:1–13

Salvation Reaches to the End of the Earth

¹Listen to Me, O ^aislands,

And pay attention, you peoples from afar.

^bThe Lord called Me from the womb;

From the ¹body of My mother He named Me.

²He has made My ^amouth like a sharp sword,

In the ^bshadow of His hand He has concealed Me;

And He has also made Me a ¹select ^carrow,

He has hidden Me in His quiver.

³He said to Me, “^aYou are My Servant, Israel,

^bIn Whom I will ¹show My glory.”

⁴But I said, “I have ^atoiled in vain,

I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;

Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,

And My ^breward with My God.”

⁵And now says ^athe Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,

To bring Jacob back to Him, so that ^bIsrael might be gathered to Him

(For I am ^chonored in the sight of the Lord,

And My God is My ^dstrength),

⁶He says, “It is too ¹small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ^apreserved ones of Israel;

I will also make You a ^blight ²of the nations

So that My salvation may ³reach to the ^cend of the earth.”

⁷Thus says the Lord, 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 the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

⁸Thus says the Lord,

“In a ^afavorable time I have answered You,

And in a day of salvation I have helped You;

And I will ^bkeep You and ^cgive You for a covenant of the people,

To ^1drestore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

⁹Saying to those who are ^abound, ‘Go forth,’

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

Along the roads they will feed,

And their pasture will be on all ^bbare heights.

¹⁰“They will ^anot hunger or thirst,

Nor will the scorching ^bheat or sun strike them down;

For ^cHe who has compassion on them will ^dlead them

And will guide them to ^esprings of water.

¹¹“I will make all ^aMy mountains a road,

And My ^bhighways will be raised up.

¹²“Behold, these will come ^afrom afar;

And lo, these will come from the ^bnorth and from the west,

And these from the land of Sinim.”

^13aShout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!

Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!

For the ^bLord has comforted His people

And will ^chave compassion on His afflicted.