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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/49.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The Servant, the Light to the Gentiles</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-49-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Listen, O coastlands, to Me,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-1">And take heed, you peoples from afar!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-1">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has called Me from the womb;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-1">From the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-2">In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-2">And made Me a polished shaft;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-2">In His quiver He has hidden Me.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“And He said to me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-3">‘You <i>are</i> My servant, O Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-3">In whom I will be glorified.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-4">I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-4">Yet surely my <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>just reward <i>is</i> with the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-4">And my <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>work with my God.’ ”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“And now the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> says,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-5">Who formed Me from the womb <i>to be</i> His Servant,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-5">To bring Jacob back to Him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-5">So that Israel is <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>gathered to Him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-5">(For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-5">And My God shall be My strength),</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Indeed He says,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-6">‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-6">To raise up the tribes of Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-6">And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-6">I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-6">That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">The Redeemer of Israel, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>their Holy One,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">To Him <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>whom man despises,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">To Him whom the nation abhors,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">To the Servant of rulers:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">“Kings shall see and arise,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">Princes also shall worship,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">Because of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> who is faithful,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">The Holy One of Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-7">And He has chosen You.”</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-49-8">“In an acceptable<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span> time I have heard You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-8">And in the day of salvation I have helped You;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-8">I will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>preserve You and give You</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-8">As a covenant to the people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-8">To restore the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-8">To cause them to inherit the desolate <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>heritages;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>That You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-9">To those who <i>are</i> in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-49-9">“They shall feed along the roads,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-9">And their pastures <i>shall be</i> on all desolate heights.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They shall neither hunger nor thirst,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-10">Neither heat nor sun shall strike them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-10">For He who has mercy on them will lead them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-10">Even by the springs of water He will guide them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will make each of My mountains a road,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-11">And My highways shall be elevated.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Surely these shall come from afar;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-12">Look! Those from the north and the west,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-12">And these from the land of Sinim.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Sing, O heavens!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-13">Be joyful, O earth!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-13">And break out in singing, O mountains!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-13">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has comforted His people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-13">And will have mercy on His afflicted.</span></p></div> <h3> God Will Remember Zion</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-49-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But Zion said, “The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has forsaken me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-14">And my Lord has forgotten me.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Can a woman forget her nursing child,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-15"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>And not have compassion on the son of her womb?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-15">Surely they may forget,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-15">Yet I will not forget you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>See, I have inscribed you on the palms <i>of My hands;</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-16">Your walls <i>are</i> continually before Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>sons shall make haste;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-17">Your destroyers and those who laid you waste</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-17">Shall go away from you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes, look around and see;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-18">All these gather together <i>and</i> come to you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-18"><i>As</i> I live,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-18">“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-18">And bind them <i>on you</i> as a bride <i>does.</i></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“For your waste and desolate places,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-19">And the land of your destruction,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-19">Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-19">And those who swallowed you up will be far away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The children you will have,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-20">After you have lost the others,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-20">Will say again in your ears,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-20">‘The place <i>is</i> too small for me;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-20">Give me a place where I may dwell.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then you will say in your heart,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">‘Who has begotten these for me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">Since I have lost my children and am desolate,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">A captive, and wandering to and fro?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">And who has brought these up?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">There I was, left alone;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-21">But these, where <i>were</i> they?’ ”</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-49-22">“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-22">And set up My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[l]</a></span>standard for the peoples;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-22">They shall bring your sons in <i>their</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[m]</a></span>arms,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-22">And your daughters shall be carried on <i>their</i> shoulders;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Kings shall be your foster fathers,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-23">And their queens your nursing mothers;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-23">They shall bow down to you with <i>their</i> faces to the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-23">And lick up the dust of your feet.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-23">Then you will know that I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-23">For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-24">Or the captives <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[n]</a></span>of the righteous be delivered?</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-49-25">“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-25">And the prey of the terrible be delivered;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-25">For I will contend with him who contends with you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-25">And I will save your children.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/49-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-26">And they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-26">All flesh shall know</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-26">That I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, <i>am</i> your Savior,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-49-26">And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18638a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:1">Isaiah 49:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>inward parts</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18641b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:4">Isaiah 49:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>justice</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18641c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:4">Isaiah 49:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>recompense</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18642d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:5">Isaiah 49:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Qr., DSS, LXX <i>gathered to Him;</i> Kt. <i>not gathered</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18644e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:7">Isaiah 49:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>his</i> or <i>its</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18644f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:7">Isaiah 49:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>who is despised of soul</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18645g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:8">Isaiah 49:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>favorable</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18645h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:8">Isaiah 49:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>keep</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18645i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:8">Isaiah 49:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>inheritances</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18652j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:15">Isaiah 49:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>From having compassion</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18654k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:17">Isaiah 49:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>DSS, LXX, Tg., Vg. <i>builders</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18659l"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:22">Isaiah 49:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>banner</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18659m"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:22">Isaiah 49:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>bosom</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18661n"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 49:24">Isaiah 49:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; DSS, Syr., Vg. <i>of the mighty;</i> LXX <i>unjustly</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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