And he said to me, “You are my servant,
    Israel, (A)in whom I will be glorified.”[a]
(B)But I said, “I have labored in vain;
    I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
    and my recompense with my God.”

(C)And now the Lord says,
    he (D)who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him;
    and that Israel might be gathered to him—
for (E)I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
    and my God has become my strength—

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:3 Or I will display my beauty

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