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(A) I chose you to bring justice,
    and I am here at your side.
I selected you and sent you[a]
    to bring light
and my promise of hope
    to the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. 42.6 I selected … you: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

32 (A) Your mighty power is a light
    for all nations,
and it will bring honor
    to your people Israel.”

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23 (A) I told them how the Messiah would suffer and be the first to be raised from death, so he could bring light to his own people and to the Gentiles.

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47 (A) The Lord has given us this command,

“I have placed you here
as a light
    for the Gentiles.
You are to take
    the saving power of God
to people everywhere on earth.”

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