Isaiah:49
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Listen ,
O isles ,
unto me ;
and hearken ,
ye people ,
from far ;
The LORD hath called me from the womb ;
from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name .
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And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword ;
in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me ,
and made me a polished shaft ;
in his quiver hath he hid me ;
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And said unto me ,
Thou art my servant ,
O Israel Yisra #
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in whom I will be glorified .
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Then I said ,
I have laboured in vain ,
I have spent my strength for nought ,
and in vain :
yet surely my judgment is with the LORD ,
and my work with my God .
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And now ,
saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant ,
to bring #
Jacob again to him ,
Though Israel be not gathered ,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD ,
and my God shall be my strength .
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And he said ,
It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and to restore the preserved (
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of Israel Yisra #
el #:
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles ,
that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
the Redeemer of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and his Holy One ,
to him whom man despiseth ,
to him whom the nation abhorreth ,
to a servant of rulers ,
Kings shall see and arise ,
princes also shall worship ,
because of the LORD that is faithful ,
and the Holy One of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and he shall choose thee .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
In an acceptable time have I heard thee ,
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee :
and I will preserve thee ,
and give thee for a covenant of the people ,
to establish the earth ,
to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ;
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That thou mayest say to the prisoners ,
Go forth ;
to them that are in darkness ,
Shew yourselves .
They shall feed in the ways ,
and their pastures shall be in all high places .
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They shall not hunger nor thirst ;
neither shall the heat nor sun smite them :
for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them ,
even by the springs of water shall he guide them .
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And I will make all my mountains a way ,
and my highways shall be exalted .
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Behold ,
these shall come from far :
and ,
lo ,
these from the north and from the west ;
and these from the land of Sinim .
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Sing ,
O heavens ;
and be joyful ,
O earth ;
and break forth into singing ,
O mountains :
for the LORD hath comforted his people ,
and will have mercy upon his afflicted .
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But Zion said ,
The LORD hath forsaken me ,
and my Lord hath forgotten me .
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Can a woman forget her sucking child ,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ?
yea ,
they may forget ,
yet will I not forget thee .
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Behold ,
I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ;
thy walls are continually before me .
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Thy children shall make haste ;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee .
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Lift up thine eyes round about ,
and behold :
all these gather themselves together ,
and come to thee .
As I live ,
saith the LORD ,
thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all ,
as with an ornament ,
and bind them on thee ,
as a bride doeth .
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For thy waste and thy desolate places ,
and the land of thy destruction ,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants ,
and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away .
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The children which thou shalt have ,
after thou hast lost the other ,
shall say again in thine ears ,
The place is too strait for me :
give place to me that I may dwell .
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Then shalt thou say in thine heart ,
Who hath begotten me these ,
seeing I have lost my children ,
and am desolate ,
a captive ,
and removing to and fro ?
and who hath brought up these ?
Behold ,
I was left alone ;
these ,
where had they been ?
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ,
Behold ,
I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles ,
and set up my standard to the people :
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms ,
and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders .
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And kings shall be thy nursing fathers ,
and their queens thy nursing mothers :
they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth ,
and lick up the dust of thy feet ;
and thou shalt know that I am the LORD :
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me .
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Shall the prey be taken from the mighty ,
or the lawful captive delivered ?
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But thus saith the LORD ,
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away ,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered :
for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee ,
and I will save thy children .
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And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ;
and they shall be drunken with their own blood ,
as with sweet wine :
and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer ,
the mighty One of Jacob Ya #
aqob #.