2. He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.He has made me a polished shaft.He has kept me close in his quiver.
3. He said to me, “You are my servant;Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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.
11. I will make all my mountains a road,and my highways shall be exalted.
12. Behold, these shall come from afar;and behold, these from the north and from the west;and these from the land of Sinim.”