Isaiah 49:2-12

2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”
5 And now the LORD says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am[a] honored in the eyes of the LORDand my God has been my strength—
6 he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
7 This is what the LORD says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Restoration of Israel

8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up.
12 See, they will come from afar— some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan.[b]

Cross References 43

  • 1. S Job 40:18
  • 2. S Psalms 64:3; Isaiah 11:4; Ephesians 6:17; S Revelation 1:16
  • 3. S Exodus 33:22; S Psalms 91:1
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 32:23; Zechariah 9:13
  • 5. S Isaiah 20:3; Zechariah 3:8
  • 6. S Leviticus 10:3; S Isaiah 44:23
  • 7. S Leviticus 26:20; Isaiah 55:2; Isaiah 65:23
  • 8. Isaiah 45:25; Isaiah 50:8; Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 54:17
  • 9. S Isaiah 35:4
  • 10. S Job 27:2
  • 11. S Psalms 139:13; Galatians 1:15
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Isaiah 11:12
  • 13. S Isaiah 43:4
  • 14. S Psalms 18:1
  • 15. S ver 3
  • 16. Isaiah 1:9
  • 17. S Isaiah 9:2; John 1:9
  • 18. S Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 55:5; Zechariah 8:22; S Luke 2:32
  • 19. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Psalms 48:10; S Matthew 28:19; John 11:52; Acts 13:47*
  • 20. S Isaiah 48:17
  • 21. S Psalms 22:6; Psalms 69:7-9
  • 22. S Ezra 1:2; Isaiah 52:15
  • 23. S Genesis 27:29; S Psalms 22:29; S Psalms 86:9
  • 24. S Deuteronomy 7:9; S 1 Corinthians 1:9
  • 25. S Isaiah 14:1
  • 26. Psalms 69:13; Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 61:2
  • 27. S Isaiah 41:10; 2 Corinthians 6:2*
  • 28. S Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah 26:3
  • 29. S Isaiah 42:6
  • 30. Leviticus 25:10; S Psalms 37:9; Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 58:12; Isaiah 61:4; Ezekiel 36:10,33; Amos 9:11,14
  • 31. S Numbers 34:13; S Isaiah 60:21
  • 32. Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 61:1; S Luke 4:19
  • 33. S Psalms 107:10
  • 34. Isaiah 41:18
  • 35. S Isaiah 33:16
  • 36. Psalms 121:6; Revelation 7:16
  • 37. S Isaiah 14:1
  • 38. S Psalms 48:14; S Isaiah 42:16; S Isaiah 48:17
  • 39. S Isaiah 33:21; S Isaiah 35:7
  • 40. S Isaiah 11:16
  • 41. Isaiah 40:4; Jeremiah 31:9
  • 42. S Isaiah 2:3; S Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 43:5-6
  • 43. Isaiah 59:19; S Matthew 8:11

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "him," / "but Israel would not be gathered;" / "yet I will be"
  • [b]. Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text "Sinim"
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