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Isaiah 49:3-5
Good News Translation

3 He said to me, “Israel, you are my servant;
    because of you, people will praise me.”

4 I said, “I have worked, but how hopeless it is!
    I have used up my strength, but have accomplished nothing.”
Yet I can trust the Lord to defend my cause;
    he will reward me for what I do.

5 Before I was born, the Lord appointed me;
    he made me his servant to bring back his people,
    to bring back the scattered people of Israel.
The Lord gives me honor;
    he is the source of my strength.

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Isaiah 49:3-5
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3 He said to me, “You are my servant,(A)
    Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(B)”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;(C)
    I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(D)
    and my reward(E) is with my God.”(F)

5 And now the Lord says—
    he who formed me in the womb(G) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
    and gather Israel(H) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(I) in the eyes of the Lord
    and my God has been my strength(J)—

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