Isaiah:49:1-7
bes@Isaiah:49:1 @ Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, saith the Lord: from my mother’s womb he has called my name:
bes@Isaiah:49:2 @ and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;
bes@Isaiah:49:3 @ and said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in thee I will be glorified.
bes@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgement with the Lord, and my labour before my God.
bes@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
bes@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, (note:)Ac strkjv@13:47.(:note) I have given thee for the Or, a perpetual covenant; Hebrews. and Alex. omit covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.
bes@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord’s sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen thee.
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