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Isaiah 49 · Grade 4

I Will Not Forget You

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Isaiah 49 is what many call the second Servant Song. The Servant says, "Listen, islands, to me... Yahweh has called me from the womb." God made his mouth "like a sharp sword" and made him "a polished shaft." At one point the Servant feels discouraged: "I have labored in vain." But he trusts that his reward is with God.

God gives the Servant an even bigger mission: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob... I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth." In the New Testament, Simeon called the baby Jesus a light for the Gentiles (Luke 2:32), and Paul quoted this verse in Acts 13:47.

Zion complained, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me." God answers with a beautiful promise: "Can a woman forget her nursing child...? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." Zion's children would return from everywhere, so many that she would ask, "Who has conceived these for me?"

Show What You Know

  1. What do many call Isaiah 49?

  2. What did the Servant feel at one point?

  3. What bigger mission did God give the Servant?

  4. What did Zion complain?

Think About It

  1. God says He has engraved you on His palms. How does it feel to know God cannot forget you?

  2. The Servant felt he had worked for nothing but trusted God. How can you keep going when your work seems useless?

Memory Verse

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 49:6 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for never forgetting me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • God hid His servant like an arrow in a quiver. How might God be preparing you for something in the future?
  • Where does Paul quote 49:6?

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