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href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.2.1">a</a>he hid me in the shadow of his hand.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.2.2">b</a>He made me like a sharpened arrow;he hid me in his quiver. <A name="4"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-3.htm">3</a>He said to me, “You are my servant,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.3.1">a</a>Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” <A name="5"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-4.htm">4</a>But I myself said: I have labored in vain,I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;yet my vindication is with the Lord,and my reward is with my God. <A name="6"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-5.htm">5</a>And now, says the Lord,who formed me from the womb to be his servant,to bring Jacob back to himso that Israel might be gathered to him;for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,and my God is my strength — <A name="7"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-6.htm">6</a>he says,“It is not enough for you to be my servantraising up the tribes of Jacoband restoring the protected ones of Israel.I will also make you a light for the nations,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.6.1">a</a>to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.6.2">b</a> <A name="8"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-7.htm">7</a>This is what the Lord,the Redeemer<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.7.1">a</a> of Israel, his Holy One, saysto one who is despised,to one abhorred by people,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.7.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.7.2">b</a>to a servant of rulers:“Kings will see, princes will stand up,and they<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.7.2">B</a> will all bow downbecause of the Lord, who is faithful,the Holy One of Israel<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.7.3">c</a> — and he has chosen you.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.7.4">d</a></blockquote> <A name="9"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-8.htm">8</a>This is what the Lord says:<blockquote class="poetryblock">I will answer you in a time of favor,and I will help you in the day of salvation.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.8.1">a</a>I will keep you, and I will appoint youto be a covenant for the people,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.8.2">b</a>to restore the land,to make them possess the desolate inheritances, <A name="10"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-9.htm">9</a>saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.9.1">a</a>and to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”They will feed along the pathways,and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.9.2">b</a> <A name="11"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-10.htm">10</a>They will not hunger or thirst,the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;for their compassionate one will guide them,and lead them to springs.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.10.1">a</a> <A name="12"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-11.htm">11</a>I will make all my mountains into a road,and my highways will be raised up.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.11.1">a</a> <A name="13"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-12.htm">12</a>See, these will come from far away,from the north and from the west,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.12.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.12.1">a</a>and from the land of Sinim.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.12.2">B</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.12.3">C</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="14"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-13.htm">13</a>Shout for joy, you heavens!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.13.1">a</a>Earth, rejoice!Mountains break into joyful shouts!For the Lord has comforted his people,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.13.2">b</a>and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.13.3">c</a></blockquote><h3 class="head1">Zion Remembered</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="15"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-14.htm">14</a>Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;the Lord has forgotten me! ” <A name="16"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-15.htm">15</a>“Can a woman forget her nursing child,or lack compassion for the child of her womb?Even if these forget,yet I will not forget you. <A name="17"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-16.htm">16</a>Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.16.1">a</a>your walls are continually before me. <A name="18"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-17.htm">17</a>Your builders<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.17.1">A</a> hurry;those who destroy and devastate you will leave you. <A name="19"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm">18</a>Look up, and look around.They all gather together; they come to you.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.18.1">a</a>As I live” —this is the Lord’s declaration —“you will wear all your children<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.18.1">A</a> as jewelry,and put them on as a bride does. <A name="20"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-19.htm">19</a>For your waste and desolate placesand your land marked by ruinswill now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.19.1">a</a>and those who swallowed you up will be far away. <A name="21"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">20</a>Yet as you listen, the childrenthat you have been deprived of will say,‘This place is too small for me;make room for me so that I may settle.’<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.20.1">a</a> <A name="22"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">21</a>Then you will say within yourself,‘Who fathered these for me?I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,exiled and wandering —but who brought them up?See, I was left by myself —but these, where did they come from? ’ ”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.21.1">A</a></blockquote> <A name="23"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-22.htm">22</a>This is what the Lord God says:<blockquote class="poetryblock">Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations,and raise my banner to the peoples.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.22.1">a</a>They will bring your sons in their arms,and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.22.2">b</a> <A name="24"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-23.htm">23</a>Kings will be your guardiansand their queens<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.23.1">A</a> your nursing mothers.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.23.1">a</a>They will bow down to youwith their faces to the groundand lick the dust at your feet.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.23.2">b</a>Then you will know that I am the Lord;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.23.3">c</a>those who put their hope in mewill not be put to shame.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.23.4">d</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="25"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-24.htm">24</a>Can the prey be taken from a mighty man,or the captives of a tyrant<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.49.24.1">A</a> be delivered? <A name="26"></a><a href="/isaiah/49-25.htm">25</a>For this is what the Lord says:“Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken,and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered;I will contend with the one who contends with you,and I will save your children. <a href="/isaiah/49-26.htm">26</a>I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.26.1">a</a>and they will be drunk with their own bloodas with sweet wine.Then all humanity will knowthat I, the Lord, am your Savior,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.26.2">b</a>and your Redeemer,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.26.3">c</a> the Mighty One of Jacob.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.49.26.4">d</a></blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Isaiah.49" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.1.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.1">49:1</a> Or Islands</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.7.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Or by the nation</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.7.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Lit princes and they</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.12.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.12">49:12</a> Lit sea</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.12.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.12">49:12</a> DSS read of the Syenites</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.12.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.12">49:12</a> Perhaps modern Aswan in southern Egypt</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.17.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.17">49:17</a> DSS, Aq, Theod, Vg; MT, Syr, Sym read sons</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.18.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.18">49:18</a> Lit all of them</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.21.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.21">49:21</a> Lit where are they</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.23.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.23">49:23</a> Lit princesses</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.49.24.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.24">49:24</a> DSS, Syr, Vg; MT reads a righteous man</aside> <section id="cross-references-Isaiah.49" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.1.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.1">49:1</a> Is 44:2,24; 46:3; Jr 1:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.1.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.1">49:1</a> Lk 1:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.2.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.2">49:2</a> Is 11:4; Heb 4:12; Rv 1:16; 2:12,16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.2.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.2">49:2</a> Is 51:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.3.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.3">49:3</a> Is 41:8–9; 42:1; 49:5–7; 50:10; 52:13; 53:11; Ezk 34:23–24; Zch 3:8; Ac 3:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.6.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.6">49:6</a> Is 42:6; 51:4; Lk 2:32; Ac 13:47; 26:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.6.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.6">49:6</a> Ac 13:47</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.7.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Is 41:14; 43:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.7.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Ps 22:6–8; 69:7–9; Is 53:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.7.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Is 1:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.7.4"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.7">49:7</a> Is 41:8–9; 42:1; 43:10,20; 44:1–2; 45:4; 65:9,15,22</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.8.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.8">49:8</a> Ps 69:13; 2Co 6:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.8.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.8">49:8</a> Is 42:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.9.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.9">49:9</a> Is 42:7; 61:1; Lk 4:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.9.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.9">49:9</a> Is 41:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.10.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.10">49:10</a> Ps 23:2; Is 40:11; Jn 4:10; Rv 7:16–17</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.11.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.11">49:11</a> Is 40:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.12.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.12">49:12</a> Is 43:5–6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.13.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.13">49:13</a> Is 44:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.13.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.13">49:13</a> Is 40:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.13.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.13">49:13</a> Is 54:7–10; Mt 11:29</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.16.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.16">49:16</a> Sg 8:6; Hg 2:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.18.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.18">49:18</a> Is 60:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.19.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.19">49:19</a> Is 54:1–2; Zch 10:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.20.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.20">49:20</a> Is 54:1–3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.22.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.22">49:22</a> Is 11:10–12; 18:3; 62:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.22.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.22">49:22</a> Is 14:2; 43:6; 60:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.23.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.23">49:23</a> Is 60:3,10–11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.23.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.23">49:23</a> Is 14:1–2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.23.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.23">49:23</a> Is 41:20; 43:10; 60:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.23.4"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.23">49:23</a> Ps 25:3; Is 45:17; Jl 2:27</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.26.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.26">49:26</a> Is 9:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.26.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.26">49:26</a> Is 43:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.26.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.26">49:26</a> Is 41:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.49.26.4"><a href="#start-Isaiah.49.26">49:26</a> Gn 49:24; Ps 132:2,5; Is 60:16</aside> <section id="study-notes-Isaiah.49" class="snSection"> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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