Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Listen
to
Me
, O islands;
pay
attention
, O distant
peoples :
The
LORD
called
Me
from the womb ;
from the body
of My mother He named
Me
.
Hearken
, O isles
, unto
me,
And
attend,
O peoples ,
from afar,
Jehovah
from
the womb hath
called
me,
From the bowels
of my mother He hath
made
mention
of
my
name
.
He made
My mouth like
a sharp sword ;
He
hid
Me
in the shadow of His hand .
He made
Me like
a
polished
arrow;
He hid
Me in His quiver.
And
he maketh
my mouth as
a sharp sword ,
In the shadow of His hand He hath
hid
me ,
And
He maketh
me for
a
clear
arrow,
In His quiver He
hath
hid
me
.
He said
to Me, “You
are
My Servant, Israel, in whom I will
display
My
glory
. ”
And
He saith
to me, `
My servant Thou
art
, O
Israel, In whom I beautify
Myself
. '
But
I said, “I
have
labored
in
vain ,
I have
spent
My
strength
in
futility
and vanity ;
yet
My vindication
is with the
LORD
, and My reward
is
with My God. ”
And
I said, `For
a
vain thing
I laboured,
For
emptiness
and vanity my power
I
consumed,
But
my
judgment
`
is '
with Jehovah
, And my wage
with my God.
And now says
the
LORD
, who formed
Me from the womb
to
be
His
Servant, to bring Jacob
back to
Him, that
Israel might
be
gathered to
Him—
for
I am honored
in the sight
of the
LORD
, and My God is
My strength —
And now, said
Jehovah,
who is
forming
me from the belly
for
a
servant to
Him
, To bring back Jacob
unto
Him, (Though
Israel is
not
gathered ,
Yet
I am honoured
in the eyes
of Jehovah
, And my God hath
been
my strength .)
He says:
“
It is
not
enough
for
You
to be
My
Servant ,
to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore
the protected
ones
of Israel .
I will
also
make
You
a light for
the
nations, to bring
My salvation to
the ends
of the earth. ”
And
He saith,
`
It hath
been
a
light
thing
That
thou
art
to Me
for
a
servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved
of Israel to
bring
back,
And
I have
given
thee
for
a light of
nations, To be
My salvation unto
the end
of the earth. '
Thus says
the
LORD
, the
Redeemer and
Holy
One
of Israel, to Him
who
was
despised and
abhorred
by
the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “
Kings will
see You
and
rise
, and princes will
bow
down
, because
of
the LORD
, who is faithful, the Holy One
of Israel, who
has
chosen
You
. ”
Thus said
Jehovah
, Redeemer of Israel, His
Holy
One,
To the
despised in
soul,
To
the abominated
of
a
nation, To the servant of rulers: `
Kings see, and have
risen,
princes, and
worship,
For
the sake
of
Jehovah
, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and
He
chooseth
thee
. '
This
is
what
the
LORD
says
: “
In the
time of favor
I will
answer
You
, and in the
day of salvation I will
help
You;
I will
keep You
and appoint
You
to
be
a covenant for
the people, to restore
the land
, to apportion
its
desolate inheritances ,
Thus
said
Jehovah
: `
In a
time of good
pleasure
I answered
thee
, And in a
day of salvation I helped
thee,
And
I keep thee,
and give
thee,
For
a covenant of
the people, To establish
the earth
, To cause
to
inherit
desolate inheritances .
to say to the prisoners
, ‘Come
out, ’
and
to those in darkness, ‘Show
yourselves
. ’
They will
feed along
the
pathways
, and find
pasture on
every
barren
hill
.
To say to the bound
, Go
out, To those in darkness, Be
uncovered
. On
the
ways
they feed, And in
all
high
places
is
their
pasture.
They will
not hunger or
thirst, nor will
scorching
heat
or
sun
beat
down
on
them .
For He who has
compassion
on
them
will
guide
them and
lead them beside
springs
of water
.
They do
not hunger ,
nor
thirst, Nor smite
them doth
mirage
and
sun,
For He who is
pitying
them doth
lead them ,
And
by
fountains
of waters
doth
tend
them
.
I will
turn
all My mountains into
roads
, and My highways will
be
raised
up.
And
I have
made
all My mountains for
a
way
, And My highways are
lifted
up.
Behold
, they
will
come
from far
away
, from the north and from the west
, and from the land of Aswan
. ”
Lo
, these
from afar
come
in
, And
lo,
these
from the north ,
and from the sea
, And these
from the land of Sinim
.
Shout
for
joy
, O heavens ;
rejoice
, O earth ;
break forth in
song
, O mountains !
For the
LORD
has
comforted His people, and He
will
have
compassion
on
His afflicted ones.
Sing
, O heavens, and
joy,
O earth ,
And
break forth, O mountains ,
with
singing,
For comforted hath
Jehovah
His people, And His afflicted ones He
doth
pity
.
But
Zion said
, “The
LORD
has
forsaken me ;
the
Lord has
forgotten me !”
And
Zion saith
, `Jehovah
hath
forsaken me ,
And
my
Lord hath
forgotten me .'
“Can
a woman forget
her nursing
child
, or
lack
compassion
for
the son of her womb? Even
if
she
could
forget
, I will
not
forget you!
Forget
doth
a woman her suckling
, The loved
one
--
the
son of her womb? Yea
, these
forget
--
but
I --
I
forget not
thee.
Behold
, I
have
inscribed
you
on the palms of My
hands;
your
walls are ever
before Me.
Lo
, on the palms of the
hand
I
have
graven
thee,
Thy
walls `
are '
before Me continually
.
Your
builders
hasten
back;
your
destroyers
and wreckers
depart
from you
.
Hastened
have
those
building
thee,
Those
destroying
thee,
and laying
thee
waste,
go
out
from thee
.
Lift up your
eyes and look
around.
They
all gather
together;
they come to you
. As
surely
as
I live, ”
declares
the
LORD,
“you
will
wear
them
all as jewelry
and put
them on like a bride.
Lift up round
about
thine
eyes and see,
All of
them
have
been
gathered,
They have
come to thee
. I live, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah!
Surely
all of
them
as an
ornament
thou
puttest
on,
And thou
bindest
them on like a bride.
For
your
ruined
and desolate places and your
ravaged
land will
now indeed
be
too
small
for
your
people
, and those
who
devoured
you
will
be
far away
.
Because
thy
wastes,
and thy
desolate places ,
And the
land of
thy
ruins,
Surely
now are
straitened
because
of
inhabitants
, And far off
have
been
those
consuming
thee
.
Yet
the children
of your
bereavement will
say in your
hearing,
‘This
place is too small
for
us;
make
room
for us
to live
here
. ’
Again
do
the sons
of thy
bereavement say in thine
ears:
`The
place is too strait
for me,
Come
nigh
to me
--
and
I
dwell
. '
Then
you
will
say
in your
heart ,
‘
Who has
begotten these
for me? I was
bereaved and barren;
I
was
exiled
and rejected.
So
who has
reared
them
? Look
, I was left all
alone
, so
where
did
they come
from
? ’”
And
thou
hast
said
in thy
heart :
`
Who hath
begotten for me --
these
? And
I bereaved and gloomy,
A
captive,
and turned
aside,
And
these
--
who hath
nourished
? Lo
, I --
I
was left by
myself
, these
--
whence
`are'
they?
This
is
what
the Lord GOD
says
: “Behold
, I will
lift up My hand to
the
nations
, and raise
My
banner
to
the
peoples .
They will
bring
your
sons in their
arms
and carry
your
daughters on their
shoulders
.
Thus
said
the Lord Jehovah
: `Lo
, I lift up unto
nations
My hand, And unto
peoples I
raise
up
Mine
ensign,
And
they have
brought
thy
sons in the
bosom,
And thy
daughters on the
shoulder
are
carried
.
Kings will
be
your
foster
fathers, and their queens
your
nursing mothers .
They will
bow to you
facedown
and lick
the dust at
your
feet .
Then
you
will
know
that I am the
LORD;
those who
hope
in
Me will
never
be
put
to
shame
. ”
And
kings have
been
thy
nursing
fathers, And their princesses
thy
nursing mothers ;
Face
to
the
earth
--
they bow down
to thee,
And the dust of
thy
feet they
lick
up,
And
thou
hast
known
that I `
am '
Jehovah,
That
those expecting
Me are
not
ashamed
.
Can
the
plunder
be
snatched
from the mighty ,
or
the captives
of a
tyrant
be
delivered?
Is
prey
taken
from the mighty ?
And
the captive
of the
righteous
delivered?
Indeed,
this
is
what
the
LORD
says
: “
Even the captives
of the mighty will
be
taken away
, and the plunder
of the tyrant
will
be
retrieved;
I
will
contend
with
those
who
contend
with you
, and I will
save your
children
.
For
thus
said
Jehovah
: Even the captive
of the mighty is
taken, And the prey
of the terrible
is
delivered,
And
with thy
striver
I
strive
, and thy
sons
I save.
I will
make
your
oppressors eat their own flesh ;
they will
be
drunk
on
their own blood, as
with
wine.
Then
all mankind
will
know
that I, the
LORD
, am
your
Savior
and your
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob .”
And
I have
caused
thine
oppressors to
eat their own flesh ,
And
as
new
wine
they drink
their own blood, And
known
have
all flesh
that I, Jehovah
, Thy
saviour,
and thy
redeemer, `Am'
the Mighty One of Jacob !'
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