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Isaiah 49:4-8

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4But I said, “I have labored in vain,

I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;

Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord,

And My reward is with My God.”

5And now says the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,

To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him

(For I am honored in the sight of the Lord,

And My God is My strength),

6He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the protected ones of Israel;

I will also make You a light of the nations

So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

7This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,

Says to the despised One,

To the One abhorred by the nation,

To the Servant of rulers:

“Kings will see and arise,

Princes will also bow down,

Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

8This is what the Lord says:

“At a favorable time I answered You,

And on a day of salvation I helped You;

And I will watch over You and make You a covenant of the people,

To restore the land, to give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands;