The Servant of the Lord 49 Listen ( A ) to me, you islands; ( B ) hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born ( C ) the Lord called ( D ) me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. ( E ) 2 He made my mouth ( F ) like a sharpened sword, ( G ) in the shadow of his hand ( H ) he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow ( I ) and concealed me in his quiver. 3 He said to me, “You are my servant, ( J ) Israel, in whom I will display my splendor. ( K ) ” 4 But I said, “I have labored in vain; ( L ) I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord ’s hand, ( M ) and my reward ( N ) is with my God.” ( O ) 5 And now the Lord says— he who formed me in the womb ( P ) to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel ( Q ) to himself, for I am [ a ] honored ( R ) in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength ( S ) — 6 he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant ( T ) to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. ( U ) I will also make you a light ( V ) for the Gentiles, ( W ) that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” ( X ) 7 This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel ( Y ) — to him who was despised ( Z ) and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings ( AA ) will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, ( AB ) because of the Lord , who is faithful, ( AC ) the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen ( AD ) you.” Restoration of Israel 8 This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor ( AE ) I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; ( AF ) I will keep ( AG ) you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, ( AH ) to restore the land ( AI ) and to reassign its desolate inheritances, ( AJ ) 9 to say to the captives, ( AK ) ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ( AL ) ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. ( AM ) 10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, ( AN ) nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. ( AO ) He who has compassion ( AP ) on them will guide ( AQ ) them and lead them beside springs ( AR ) of water. 11 I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways ( AS ) will be raised up. ( AT ) 12 See, they will come from afar ( AU ) — some from the north, some from the west, ( AV ) some from the region of Aswan. [ b ] ” 13 Shout for joy, ( AW ) you heavens; rejoice, you earth; ( AX ) burst into song, you mountains! ( AY ) For the Lord comforts ( AZ ) his people and will have compassion ( BA ) on his afflicted ones. ( BB ) 14 But Zion ( BC ) said, “The Lord has forsaken ( BD ) me, the Lord has forgotten me.” 15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child ( BE ) she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! ( BF ) 16 See, I have engraved ( BG ) you on the palms of my hands; your walls ( BH ) are ever before me. 17 Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste ( BI ) depart from you. 18 Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather ( BJ ) and come to you. As surely as I live, ( BK ) ” declares the Lord , “you will wear ( BL ) them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride. 19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate ( BM ) and your land laid waste, ( BN ) now you will be too small for your people, ( BO ) and those who devoured ( BP ) you will be far away. 20 The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’ ( BQ ) 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? ( BR ) I was bereaved ( BS ) and barren; I was exiled and rejected. ( BT ) Who brought these ( BU ) up? I was left ( BV ) all alone, ( BW ) but these—where have they come from?’” 22 This is what the Sovereign Lord ( BX ) says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner ( BY ) to the peoples; they will bring ( BZ ) your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips. ( CA ) 23 Kings ( CB ) will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. ( CC ) They will bow down ( CD ) before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust ( CE ) at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord ; ( CF ) those who hope ( CG ) in me will not be disappointed. ( CH ) ” 24 Can plunder be taken from warriors, ( CI ) or captives be rescued from the fierce [ c ] ? 25 But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives ( CJ ) will be taken from warriors, ( CK ) and plunder retrieved from the fierce; ( CL ) I will contend with those who contend with you, ( CM ) and your children I will save. ( CN ) 26 I will make your oppressors ( CO ) eat ( CP ) their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, ( CQ ) as with wine. Then all mankind will know ( CR ) that I, the Lord , am your Savior, ( CS ) your Redeemer, ( CT ) the Mighty One of Jacob. ( CU ) ” Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous Cross references Isaiah 49:1 : S Isa 33:13 Isaiah 49:1 : S Isa 11:11 Isaiah 49:1 : Isa 44:24; 46:3; Mt 1:20 Isaiah 49:1 : Isa 7:14; 9:6; 44:2; Jer 1:5; Gal 1:15 Isaiah 49:1 : S Ex 33:12; S Isa 43:1 Isaiah 49:2 : S Job 40:18 Isaiah 49:2 : S Ps 64:3; Eph 6:17; S Rev 1:16 Isaiah 49:2 : S Ex 33:22; S Ps 91:1 Isaiah 49:2 : S Dt 32:23; Zec 9:13 Isaiah 49:3 : S Isa 20:3; Zec 3:8 Isaiah 49:3 : S Lev 10:3; S Isa 44:23 Isaiah 49:4 : S Lev 26:20; Isa 55:2; 65:23 Isaiah 49:4 : Isa 45:25; 50:8; 53:10; 54:17 Isaiah 49:4 : S Isa 35:4 Isaiah 49:4 : S Job 27:2 Isaiah 49:5 : S Ps 139:13; Gal 1:15 Isaiah 49:5 : S Dt 30:4; S Isa 11:12 Isaiah 49:5 : S Isa 43:4 Isaiah 49:5 : S Ps 18:1 Isaiah 49:6 : S ver 3 Isaiah 49:6 : Isa 1:9 Isaiah 49:6 : S Isa 9:2; Jn 1:9 Isaiah 49:6 : S Isa 26:18; 55:5; Zec 8:22; S Lk 2:32 Isaiah 49:6 : S Dt 30:4; S Ps 48:10; S Mt 28:19; Jn 11:52; Ac 13:47* Isaiah 49:7 : S Isa 48:17 Isaiah 49:7 : S Ps 22:6; 69:7-9 Isaiah 49:7 : S Ezr 1:2; Isa 52:15 Isaiah 49:7 : S Ge 27:29; S Ps 22:29; S 86:9 Isaiah 49:7 : S Dt 7:9; S 1Co 1:9 Isaiah 49:7 : S Isa 14:1 Isaiah 49:8 : Ps 69:13; Isa 60:10; 61:2 Isaiah 49:8 : S Isa 41:10; 2Co 6:2* Isaiah 49:8 : S Isa 5:2; 26:3 Isaiah 49:8 : S Isa 42:6 Isaiah 49:8 : Lev 25:10; S Ps 37:9; Isa 44:26; 58:12; 61:4; Eze 36:10, 33; Am 9:11, 14 Isaiah 49:8 : S Nu 34:13; S Isa 60:21 Isaiah 49:9 : Isa 42:7; 61:1; S Lk 4:19 Isaiah 49:9 : S Ps 107:10 Isaiah 49:9 : Isa 41:18 Isaiah 49:10 : S Isa 33:16 Isaiah 49:10 : Ps 121:6; Rev 7:16

Isaiah 49:10 : S Isa 14:1 Isaiah 49:10 : S Ps 48:14; S Isa 42:16; S 48:17 Isaiah 49:10 : S Isa 33:21; S 35:7 Isaiah 49:11 : S Isa 11:16 Isaiah 49:11 : Isa 40:4; Jer 31:9 Isaiah 49:12 : S Isa 2:3; S 11:11; 43:5-6 Isaiah 49:12 : Isa 59:19; S Mt 8:11 Isaiah 49:13 : S Isa 48:20 Isaiah 49:13 : S Ps 96:11 Isaiah 49:13 : S Ps 65:12-13; 98:4; Isa 44:23 Isaiah 49:13 : S Ps 71:21; S Isa 40:1; S 2Co 1:4 Isaiah 49:13 : S Isa 14:1 Isaiah 49:13 : S Ps 9:12 Isaiah 49:14 : Isa 40:9 Isaiah 49:14 : S Ps 9:10; S 71:11; S Isa 27:8 Isaiah 49:15 : S 1Ki 3:26; Isa 66:13 Isaiah 49:15 : S Isa 44:21 Isaiah 49:16 : S Ge 38:18; S Ex 28:9 Isaiah 49:16 : Ps 48:12-13; Isa 62:6 Isaiah 49:17 : S Isa 5:6; 10:6; 37:18 Isaiah 49:18 : S Isa 11:12; 14:1; 43:5; 51:3; 54:7 Isaiah 49:18 : S Nu 14:21; Isa 45:23; 54:9; 62:8; Ro 14:11* Isaiah 49:18 : Isa 52:1; 61:10; Jer 2:32 Isaiah 49:19 : S Lev 26:33; Isa 54:1, 3; 60:18; 62:4 Isaiah 49:19 : S Isa 5:6 Isaiah 49:19 : Eze 36:10-11; Zec 10:10 Isaiah 49:19 : S Isa 1:20 Isaiah 49:20 : Isa 54:1-3; Zec 2:4; 10:10 Isaiah 49:21 : Isa 29:23; 66:7-8 Isaiah 49:21 : S Isa 47:8; 54:1 Isaiah 49:21 : Isa 5:13; 54:6 Isaiah 49:21 : Isa 60:8 Isaiah 49:21 : S Isa 1:8 Isaiah 49:21 : S Ps 142:4; Isa 51:18; Jer 10:20 Isaiah 49:22 : S Ge 15:2 Isaiah 49:22 : S Isa 11:10 Isaiah 49:22 : S Isa 11:12; S 14:2 Isaiah 49:22 : Lk 15:5 Isaiah 49:23 : Isa 60:3, 10-11 Isaiah 49:23 : S Nu 11:12; S Isa 60:16 Isaiah 49:23 : S Ge 27:29; Rev 3:9 Isaiah 49:23 : S Ge 3:14; Ps 72:9 Isaiah 49:23 : S Ex 6:2; S Ps 22:23; S Isa 42:8 Isaiah 49:23 : S Ps 37:9; S 130:5 Isaiah 49:23 : S Ps 22:5; S Isa 29:22; S 41:11 Isaiah 49:24 : Mt 12:29; Mk 3:27; Lk 11:21 Isaiah 49:25 : S Isa 14:2 Isaiah 49:25 : Jer 50:33-34; Mk 3:27 Isaiah 49:25 : S Isa 13:11; S 25:4 Isaiah 49:25 : S 1Sa 24:15; Isa 25:5; S 43:26; 51:22; Jer 50:34 Isaiah 49:25 : Isa 25:9; 33:22; 35:4 Isaiah 49:26 : S Isa 9:4; S 13:11 Isaiah 49:26 : S Isa 9:20 Isaiah 49:26 : Nu 23:24; Jer 25:27; Na 1:10; 3:11; Rev 16:6 Isaiah 49:26 : Ex 6:7; S Isa 11:9; Eze 39:7 Isaiah 49:26 : S Isa 25:9 Isaiah 49:26 : S Job 19:25; S Isa 48:17 Isaiah 49:26 : S Ge 49:24; S Ps 132:2 Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan. More on the NIV Unleash God's Word! Bible Gateway Recommends