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Isaiah 49:1-6

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Salvation Reaches to the Ends of the Earth

1Listen to Me, you islands,

And pay attention, you peoples from afar.

The Lord called Me from the womb;

From the body of My mother He named Me.

2He has made My mouth like a sharp sword,

In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;

And He has also made Me a sharpened arrow,

He has hidden Me in His quiver.

3He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,

In whom I will show My glory.”

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.”

Promise to Zion