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he says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
    to raise up the tribes of Jacob
    and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
(A)I will make you (B)as a light for the nations,
    that (C)my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Thus says the Lord,
    (D)the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
(E)to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
    the servant of rulers:
(F)“Kings shall see and arise;
    princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
    the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

The Restoration of Israel

Thus says the Lord:
(G)“In a (H)time of favour I have answered you;
    in a day of salvation I have helped you;
I will keep you (I)and give you
    as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
    (J)to apportion the desolate heritages,

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