1 “But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant,Israel my chosen one.
2 The lord who made you and helps you says:Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant,O dear Israel, my chosen one.
3 For I will pour out water to quench your thirstand to irrigate your parched fields.And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants,and my blessing on your children.
4 They will thrive like watered grass,like willows on a riverbank.
5 Some will proudly claim, ‘I belong to the lord.’Others will say, ‘I am a descendant of Jacob.’Some will write the lord’s name on their handsand will take the name of Israel as their own.”
6 This is what the lord says—Israel’s King and Redeemer, the lord of Heaven’s Armies: “I am the First and the Last;there is no other God.