4 But I said, “I have labored in vain.I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord,and my reward with my God.”
5 Now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,to bring Jacob again to him,and to gather Israel to him,for I am honorable in the Lord’s eyes,and my God has become my strength.
6 Indeed, 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 preserved of Israel?I will also give you as a light to the nations,that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
7 the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:“Kings shall see and rise up;princes, and they shall worship;because of the Lord who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8 the Lord says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you,and in a day of salvation I have helped you.I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people,to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’“They shall feed along the paths,and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst;neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:for he who has mercy on them will lead them.He will guide them by springs of water.