Read Isaiah 49

World English Bible · 26 verses

1. ¹ Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ “For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org