1 Listen to me, O coastlands,and pay attention, you peoples from afar.The Lord called me from the womb;from the body of my mother He named me.
2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword;in the shadow of His hand He has hidden meand made me a select arrow;in His quiver He has hidden me.
3 He said to me, “You are My servant,Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4 Then I said, “I have labored 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.”
5 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(yet I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,and my God is my strength),
6 He says,“It is a light thing that you should be My servantto raise up the tribes of Jacoband to restore the preserved ones of Israel;I will also make you a light to the nationsso that My salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
7 Thus says the Lord,the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,to the despised one, to the one whom the nation abhors,to the servant of rulers:“Kings shall see and arise,princes also shall worship,because of the Lord who is faithfuland the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”