Isaiah 49:3-6

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.”

Cross References 15

  • 1. S Isaiah 20:3; Zechariah 3:8
  • 2. S Leviticus 10:3; S Isaiah 44:23
  • 3. S Leviticus 26:20; Isaiah 55:2; Isaiah 65:23
  • 4. Isaiah 45:25; Isaiah 50:8; Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 54:17
  • 5. S Isaiah 35:4
  • 6. S Job 27:2
  • 7. S Psalms 139:13; Galatians 1:15
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Isaiah 11:12
  • 9. S Isaiah 43:4
  • 10. S Psalms 18:1
  • 11. S ver 3
  • 12. Isaiah 1:9
  • 13. S Isaiah 9:2; John 1:9
  • 14. S Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 55:5; Zechariah 8:22; S Luke 2:32
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Psalms 48:10; S Matthew 28:19; John 11:52; Acts 13:47*

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "him," / "but Israel would not be gathered;" / "yet I will be"
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