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    so that all may know, from the rising of the sun
    to its setting, that there is none besides me.[a]
I am the Lord, there is no other.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:6 The nations will come to know that Israel’s God is the only God; cf. also vv. 20–25.

so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting(A)
people may know(B) there is none besides me.(C)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant,
    to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
    and restore the survivors of Israel;(A)
I will make you a light to the nations,
    that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 49:6 The servant’s vocation extends beyond the restoration of Israel in order to bring the knowledge of Israel’s God to the rest of the earth; cf. Lk 2:32.

he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant(A)
    to restore the tribes of Jacob
    and bring back those of Israel I have kept.(B)
I will also make you a light(C) for the Gentiles,(D)
    that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”(E)

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