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Isa.|49:1|-|Listen to |1|me, O coastlands,And hearken, you peoples from afar.
Jehovah has called me |a|from the womb;From the bowels of my mother He has made mention of my name.
Isa.|49:2|-|And He has made my mouth like a |a|sharp sword;He has concealed me in the shadow of His hand,
And He has made me a polished arrow;He has hidden me in His quiver.
Isa.|49:3|-|And He said to me, You are My |a|servant,|1|Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Isa.|49:4|-|But I said, I have |1|labored in vain;I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah,And my recompense with my God.
Isa.|49:5|-|And now says Jehovah,Who formed |1|Me from the |2|womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him,So that Israel would be gathered to Him;
And I will be glorified in the sight of Jehovah,And My God will be My strength.
Isa.|49:6|-|He says, It is too small a thing that You would be My ServantTo raise up the tribes of Jacob
And bring back the preserved of Israel;|a|I will also set You as a |1|light of the nations
That You may be My |2b|salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Isa.|49:7|-|Thus says Jehovah,The |a|Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One,
To the |1b|despised One, the One abhorred by the nation,The One subjected to tyrants,
Kings will see and arise,And princes will bow down;
Because of Jehovah, who is |c|faithful,The Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.
Isa.|49:8|-||a|Thus says Jehovah,In an acceptable time I have answered You,
And in a day of salvation I have helped You;And I will preserve You and give You for a |1b|covenant of the people,
To restore the |2|land, to |3|apportion the desolate inheritances,
Isa.|49:9a|-|To say to the prisoners, Come forth,To say to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves.|1|
Isa.|49:9b|-|They will feed along the roads,And their pasture will be on all the bare heights;
Isa.|49:10|-|They will not |a|hunger or thirst;Neither the scorching heat nor the sun will |b|strike them;
For He who has compassion on them will lead themAnd will |c|guide them beside the springs of water;
Isa.|49:11|-|And I will make all My |a|mountains into a road,And My highways will be raised up.
Isa.|49:12|-|Indeed, these will come from a distance,And indeed these will come |a|from the north and the west,
And these from the land of the |1|Sinim.
Isa.|49:13|-|Give a |a|ringing shout, O heavens, and exult, O earth,And break forth into shouting, O mountains;
For Jehovah has comforted His peopleAnd will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
Isa.|49:14|-|But Zion has said, Jehovah has forsaken me,And the Lord has forgotten me.
Isa.|49:15|-|Can a woman forget her nursing child,That she would not have |a|compassion on the son of her womb?
Even though they may forget,Yet I will not forget you.
Isa.|49:16|-|Indeed, I have |a|engraved you upon the palms of My hands;Your walls are continually before Me.
Isa.|49:17|-||1|Your children make haste;Your destroyers and those who lay you waste
Will go forth from you.
Isa.|49:18|-|Lift up your eyes and look around;All of these gather themselves together and come to you.
As I live, declares Jehovah,You will put all of them on like an |a|ornament
And gird yourself with them like a bride.
Isa.|49:19|-|For your waste and desolate placesAnd your devastated land—
For you will be too constricted now because of its inhabitants,And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
Isa.|49:20|-|The children of whom you were bereavedWill yet say in your ears,
This place is too constricted for me;Make room for me that I may dwell here.
Isa.|49:21|-|Then you will say in your heart,Who has borne these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of children and am barren,An exile and driven about?
And who brought these up?Indeed, I was left alone;
From where did these come?
Isa.|49:22|-|Thus says the Lord Jehovah,Indeed, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
And unto the peoples I will lift up My banner;And they will |a|bring your sons in their arms,
And they will carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Isa.|49:23|-|And kings will be your foster fathers;And their princesses will be those who |a|nurse you;
They will bow down to you with their faces toward the earthAnd lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am Jehovah;Those who |b|wait on Me will not be ashamed.
Isa.|49:24|-|Can the booty be taken from the |a|strong man,Or the lawful captives be delivered?
Isa.|49:25|-|Surely, thus says Jehovah,Even the captive may be taken from the strong man,
And the booty may be released from the tyrant;For I will strive with those who strive with you,
And I will save your children;
Isa.|49:26|-|And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;And they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;
Then all flesh will knowThat I am Jehovah your Savior
And your |a|Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
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