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1Listen to me, O coastlands;[#Isa 7.14; 9.6; 42.4; 44.2, 24; 66.19; Mt 1.20; Gal 1.15]
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.
2He made my mouth like a sharp sword;[#Isa 11.4; 51.16; Hab 3.11; Heb 4.12]
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.
3And he said to me, “You are my servant,[#Isa 42.1; 44.23]
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4But I said, “I have labored in vain;[#Isa 65.23]
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord
and my reward with my God.”
5And now the Lord says,[#Isa 12.2; 27.12; 43.4; 44.2, 23]
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—
6he says,[#Isa 42.6; Lk 2.32; Acts 13.47; 26.23]
“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.”
7Thus says the Lord ,[#Ps 22.6–8; Isa 48.17; 52.15; 53.3; 66.23]
the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations,
the slave of rulers,
“Kings shall see and stand up;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves,
because of the Lord , who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8Thus says the Lord :[#Ps 69.13; Isa 42.6; 44.26; 2 Cor 6.2]
In a time of favor I have answered you;
on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you
as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
to apportion the desolate heritages,
9saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”[#Isa 41.18; 42.7; Lk 4.18]
to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways;
on all the bare heights shall be their pasture;
10they shall not hunger or thirst,[#Ps 121.6; Isa 14.1; 40.11; 41.17; Rev 7.16]
neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them down,
for he who has pity on them will lead them
and by springs of water will guide them.
11And I will turn all my mountains into a road,[#Isa 40.4; 62.10]
and my highways shall be raised up.
12Look, some shall come from far away,[#Isa 43.5, 6]
some from the north and from the west,
and some from the land of Syene.
13Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;[#Isa 40.1; 44.23; 54.7, 8, 10; Rev 12.12; 18.20]
break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord has comforted his people
and will have compassion on his suffering ones.
14But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me;[#Isa 40.27]
my Lord has forgotten me.”
15Can a woman forget her nursing child[#Isa 44.21]
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these might forget,
yet I will not forget you.
16See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;[#Song 8.6; Isa 62.6, 7]
your walls are continually before me.
17Your builders outdo your destroyers,[#v 19; #49.17 Or Your children come swiftly; your destroyers]
and those who laid you waste go away from you.
18Lift up your eyes all around and see;[#Isa 43.5; 45.23; 52.1; 60.4]
they all gather; they come to you.
As I live, says the Lord ,
you shall put all of them on like an ornament,
and like a bride you shall bind them on.
19For your wastelands, your desolate places,[#Ps 56.1, 2; Isa 51.3; 54.1, 2; Zech 10.10]
and your devastated land—
now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20The children born in the time of your bereavement[#Isa 54.1–3]
will yet say in your hearing:
“The place is too crowded for me;
make room for me to settle.”
21Then you will say in your heart,[#Isa 1.8; 5.13; 27.10; 54.6, 7]
“Who has borne me these?
I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away—
so who has reared these?
I was left all alone—
where, then, have these come from?”
22Thus says the Lord God :[#Isa 60.4; 62.10; 66.20]
I will soon lift up my hand to the nations
and raise my signal to the peoples,
and they shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23Kings shall be your foster fathers[#Ps 25.3; 72.9; Isa 25.9; 43.10; 45.14; 60.16; Mic 7.17]
and their queens your nursing mothers.
With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you
and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord ;
those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
24Can the prey be taken from the mighty
or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?
25But thus says the Lord :[#Isa 14.1, 2; 25.9]
Even the captives of the mighty will be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,[#v 7 ; Isa 9.4, 20; 43.3; 45.6]
and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that I am the Lord your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.