Yahweh’s Servant Brings Salvation

• and listen attentively, peoples from far away!
• Yahweh called me from the womb;
  • from the body[fn] of my mother he made my name known.
  • 2 And he made[fn] my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand,
• and he made[fn] me like an sharpened arrow;
  • he hid me in his quiver.
  • 3 And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will show my glory.”
  • 4 But[fn] I myself said, “I have labored in[fn] vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity!
• Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh,
  • and my reward is with my God.”
  • 5 And now Yahweh says, who formed me from the womb as a servant for him,
• to bring Jacob back to him,
  • and that Israel might not[fn] be gathered,
• for[fn] I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh,
  • and my God has become my strength.
  
  

6 And he says, “It is trivial ⌊for you to be⌋[fn] a servant for me,

• to raise up the tribes of Jacob
  • and to bring back the preserved of Israel.
• I will give you as a light to the nations,
  • to be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
  
  

7 Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel, his holy one,

• to the one who despises[fn] life,
  • to the one who abhors the nation,
  • to the slave of rulers:
• “Kings shall see and stand up;
  • princes, and they shall bow down,
• for the sake of Yahweh, who is faithful,
  • the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you.”