Isaiah 49
1Listen 2 Listen, you peoples, from afar: 1 the LORD has called me from the womb; 2 from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. 1
2He 2 He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. 1 He has made me a polished shaft. 2 He has kept me close in his quiver. 1
3He 2 Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” 1
4But 2 I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; 1 yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, 2 and my reward with my God.” 1
5Now 2 says to bring Jacob again to him, 2 and to gather Israel to him, 2 for I am honourable in the LORD’s eyes, 2 and my God has become my strength. 1
6Indeed 2 and to restore the preserved of Israel. 1 I will also give you as a light to the nations, 2 that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.” 1
7The 2 says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: 1 “ Kings shall see and rise up, 2 princes, and they shall worship, 2 because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” 1
8The 2 I have helped you in a day of salvation. 1 I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, 2 to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage, 1
9saying to 2 to those who are in darkness, ‘ Show yourselves!’ 1 “ They shall feed along the paths, 2 and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights. 1
10They 2 neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, 2 for he who has mercy on them will lead them. 2 He will guide them by springs of water. 1
11I 2 and my highways shall be exalted. 1
12Behold 2 and behold, these from the north and from the west, 2 and these from the land of Sinim.” 1
13Sing 2 Break out into singing, mountains! 1 For the LORD has comforted his people, 2 and will have compassion on his afflicted. 1
14But 2 and the Lord has forgotten me.” 1
15“ Can 2 that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? 1 Yes, these may forget, 2 yet I will not forget you! 1
16Behold 2 Your walls are continually before me. 1
17Your 2 Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. 1
18Lift 2 all these gather themselves together, and come to you. 1 As I live,” says the LORD, “ you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, 2 and dress yourself with them, like a bride. 1
19“ For 2 and your land that has been destroyed, 1 surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, 2 and those who swallowed you up will be far away. 1
20The 2 ‘ This place is too small for me. 2 Give me a place to live in.’ 1
21Then you 2 and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? 1 Who has brought these up? 2 Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’” 1
22The 2 and lift up my banner to the peoples. 1 They shall bring your sons in their bosom, 2 and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 1
23Kings 2 and their queens your nursing mothers. 1 They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, 2 and lick the dust of your feet. 1 Then you will know that I am the LORD; 2 and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.” 1
24Shall 2 or the lawful captives be delivered? 1
25But 2 and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, 1 for I will contend with him who contends with you 2 and I will save your children. 1
26I 2 and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. 1 Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Saviour 2 and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”