He said to me, ‘You are my servant,
    Israel, in whom I will display my splendour.’
But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain;
    I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due to me is in the Lord’s hand,
    and my reward is with my God.’

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] honoured in the eyes of the Lord
    and my God has been my strength –

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be