Isaiah, Chapter 49, verses 1-7: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Isaiah, Chapter 49, verses 1-2, 2-7

¹ And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the^a Lit inward partsbody of My mother He named Me.	1 Isa 42:4 Isa 44:2 Isa 44:24 Isa 46:3 Jer 1:5
² Listen to Me, O islands,	2 Isa 11:4 Heb 4:12 Rev 1:16 Rev 2:12 Rev 2:16 Isa 51:16 Hab 3:11
² He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a^b Or sharpenedselect arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.
³ He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, In Whom I will^c Or glorify Myselfshow My glory.”	3 Zec 3:8 Isa 44:23
⁴ But I said, “I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the LORD, And My reward with My God.”	4 Isa 65:23 Isa 35:4 Isa 59:18
⁵ And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of the LORD, And My God is My strength),	5 Isa 44:2 Isa 11:12 Isa 27:12 Isa 43:4 Isa 12:2
⁶ He says, “It is too^d Lit lightsmall a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light^e Or toof the nations So that My salvation may^f Lit bereach to the end of the earth.”	6 Psa 37:28 Psa 97:10 Isa 42:6 Isa 51:4 Luk 2:32 Act 13:47 Act 26:23 Isa 48:20
⁷ Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, “Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”	7 Isa 48:17 Psa 22:6-8 Psa 69:7-9 Isa 53:3 Isa 52:15 Isa 19:21 Isa 19:23 Isa 27:13 Isa 66:23


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