Isaiah 49:1-6 - Servant Song #2

YHWH's Prophetic Royal Servant
Isaiah 49:1-6

1 Listen to me, O coastlands; pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born. While I was in my mother’s womb, he named me.

2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he hid me. He made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away. 3 And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

4 But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord and my reward with my God.”

5 And now the Lord says — who formed me in the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the sight of the Lord, and my God has become my strength…. — 6 He says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel? I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

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In time, I will place thoughts and meditations on this Song below ...

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