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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 49 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/49.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/49-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Isaiah 49</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/48.htm" title="Isaiah 48">◄</a> Isaiah 49 <a href="../isaiah/50.htm" title="Isaiah 50">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/isaiah/49.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Servant of the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Listen to me, you islands;</p><p class="line2">hear this, you distant nations:</p><p class="line1">Before I was born the <span class="name">Lord</span> called me;</p><p class="line2">from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,</p><p class="line2">in the shadow of his hand he hid me;</p><p class="line1">he made me into a polished arrow</p><p class="line2">and concealed me in his quiver.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He said to me, “You are my servant,</p><p class="line2">Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But I said, “I have labored in vain;</p><p class="line2">I have spent my strength for nothing at all.</p><p class="line1">Yet what is due me is in the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s hand,</p><p class="line2">and my reward is with my God.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And now the <span class="name">Lord</span> says—</p><p class="line2">he who formed me in the womb to be his servant</p><p class="line1">to bring Jacob back to him</p><p class="line2">and gather Israel to himself,</p><p class="line1">for I am <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or him, but Israel would not be gathered; yet I will be">a</a></sup></span> honored in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><p class="line2">and my God has been my strength—</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he says:</p><p class="line1">“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant</p><p class="line2">to restore the tribes of Jacob</p><p class="line2">and bring back those of Israel I have kept.</p><p class="line1">I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,</p><p class="line2">that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says—</p><p class="line2">the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel—</p><p class="line1">to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,</p><p class="line2">to the servant of rulers:</p><p class="line1">“Kings will see you and stand up,</p><p class="line2">princes will see and bow down,</p><p class="line1">because of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, who is faithful,</p><p class="line2">the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”</p></div> <p class="sectionhead">Restoration of Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“In the time of my favor I will answer you,</p><p class="line2">and in the day of salvation I will help you;</p><p class="line1">I will keep you and will make you</p><p class="line2">to be a covenant for the people,</p><p class="line1">to restore the land</p><p class="line2">and to reassign its desolate inheritances,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’</p><p class="line2">and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“They will feed beside the roads</p><p class="line2">and find pasture on every barren hill.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They will neither hunger nor thirst,</p><p class="line2">nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.</p><p class="line1">He who has compassion on them will guide them</p><p class="line2">and lead them beside springs of water.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will turn all my mountains into roads,</p><p class="line2">and my highways will be raised up.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>See, they will come from afar—</p><p class="line2">some from the north, some from the west,</p><p class="line2">some from the region of Aswan. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim">b</a></sup></span> ”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Shout for joy, you heavens;</p><p class="line2">rejoice, you earth;</p><p class="line2">burst into song, you mountains!</p><p class="line1">For the <span class="name">Lord</span> comforts his people</p><p class="line2">and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But Zion said, “The <span class="name">Lord</span> has forsaken me,</p><p class="line2">the Lord has forgotten me.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast</p><p class="line2">and have no compassion on the child she has borne?</p><p class="line1">Though she may forget,</p><p class="line2">I will not forget you!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;</p><p class="line2">your walls are ever before me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Your children hasten back,</p><p class="line2">and those who laid you waste depart from you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes and look around;</p><p class="line2">all your children gather and come to you.</p><p class="line1">As surely as I live,” declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">“you will wear them all as ornaments;</p><p class="line2">you will put them on, like a bride.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Though you were ruined and made desolate</p><p class="line2">and your land laid waste,</p><p class="line1">now you will be too small for your people,</p><p class="line2">and those who devoured you will be far away.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The children born during your bereavement</p><p class="line2">will yet say in your hearing,</p><p class="line1">‘This place is too small for us;</p><p class="line2">give us more space to live in.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then you will say in your heart,</p><p class="line2">‘Who bore me these?</p><p class="line1">I was bereaved and barren;</p><p class="line2">I was exiled and rejected.</p><p class="line2">Who brought these up?</p><p class="line1">I was left all alone,</p><p class="line2">but these—where have they come from?’ ”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“See, I will beckon to the nations,</p><p class="line2">I will lift up my banner to the peoples;</p><p class="line1">they will bring your sons in their arms</p><p class="line2">and carry your daughters on their hips.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Kings will be your foster fathers,</p><p class="line2">and their queens your nursing mothers.</p><p class="line1">They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;</p><p class="line2">they will lick the dust at your feet.</p><p class="line1">Then you will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>;</p><p class="line2">those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Can plunder be taken from warriors,</p><p class="line2">or captives be rescued from the fierce <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous">c</a></sup></span> ?</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,</p><p class="line2">and plunder retrieved from the fierce;</p><p class="line1">I will contend with those who contend with you,</p><p class="line2">and your children I will save.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;</p><p class="line2">they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.</p><p class="line1">Then all mankind will know</p><p class="line2">that I, the <span class="name">Lord</span>, am your Savior,</p><p class="line2">your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>him,<br />     but Israel would not be gathered;<br />     yet I will be</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Dead Sea Scrolls; 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