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Isaiah 49

49 Listen to me, coastlands,

and attend, peoples from far away.

Yahweh called me from the womb;

from the bowels of my mother he made one remember my name.

2 And he made my mouth like a sharp sword;

he concealed me in the shadow of his hand.

And he made me into a polished arrow;

he hid me in his quiver.

3 And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel,

in whom I will glorify myself.”

4 But I, I said, “I have labored for worthlessness;

I have finished my strength for nothingness and vapor.

Yet my justice is with Yahweh,

and my reward is with my God.”

5 And now Yahweh has said,

the one having formed me from the womb as a servant for him,

to return Jacob to him

and that Israel would be assembled to him

—and I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh,

and my God has become my strength—

6 and he said, “It is too light for you to be a servant to me

to raise up the tribes of Jacob

and to return the preserved ones of Israel,

for I have given you as a light of the nations,

that my salvation may be to the end of the earth.”

7 Thus says Yahweh,

the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One,

to the despiser of life, to the detester of the nation,

to the servant of rulers:

“Kings will see, and they will arise;

princes, and they will prostrate themselves,

because of Yahweh, who is faithful,

the Holy One of Israel, and he has chosen you.”

8 Thus says Yahweh,

“In the time of favor I will answer you,

and in the day of salvation I will help you.

And I will preserve you,

and I will give you as a covenant of the people,

to raise up the land,

to make them inherit the inheritances being desolate,

9 to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’

to those who are in darkness, ‘Reveal yourselves!’

Along the roads they will graze,

and on all of the bare heights will be their pasture.

10 They will not hunger, and they will not thirst,

and the glaring heat and the sun will not strike them,

for the one having compassion on them will lead them,

and to springs of water he will guide them.

11 And I will make all of my mountains into a road,

and my highways will be high.

12 Behold, these will come from far away,

and behold, these from the north and from the sea,

and these from the land of Sinim.”

13 Shout joyfully, heavens, and rejoice, earth,

and break forth into singing, mountains!

For Yahweh will comfort his people,

and he will have compassion on his afflicted.

14 But Zion says, “Yahweh has forsaken me,

and the Lord has forgotten me.”

15 “Does a woman forget her nursing child,

from having compassion on the son of her womb?

Even these may forget,

but I, I will not forget you.

16 Behold, on my palms I have inscribed you;

your walls are before me continually.

17 Your sons hurry;

the ones having torn you down and the ones having desolated you will go out from you.

18 Lift up your eyes around and see all of them;

they are gathered, they have come to you.

“The life of me”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“if you do not wear all of them like jewelry

and bind them on like a bride.

19 For your devastations and your desolations

and the land of your destruction—

surely now you will be too narrow for the dweller,

and the ones having swallowed you will be far away.

20 Yet the sons of your bereavements will say in your ears,

‘The place is too narrow for me;

draw near to me, that I may dwell.’

21 And you will say in your heart,

‘Who bore these for me?

And I was bereft and barren,

having gone into exile and having been turned aside.

And who raised these?

Behold, I, I was left by myself;

these, where are they from?’ ”

22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,

and I will raise my banner to the peoples.

And they will bring your sons in their laps,

and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

23 And kings will be the ones fostering you,

and their princesses, the ones nursing you.

Nostrils to the earth, they will prostrate themselves to you,

and they will lick the dust of your feet.

And you will know that I am Yahweh;

who will not have shame, the ones waiting for me.”

24 Will the spoil be taken from a warrior,

or if the captive of the righteous will be rescued?

25 For thus says Yahweh,

“Even the captive of a warrior will be taken,

and the spoil of the terrible will be rescued.

And I, I will contend with your contender,

and I, I will save your sons.

26 And I will make your oppressors eat their flesh,

and they will become drunk with their blood as with new wine.

And all flesh will know

that I, Yahweh, am your Savior

and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”