Isaiah 49:3-5

American Standard Version

³ and he said unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. ⁴ But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.

⁵ And now saith Jehovah that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, ^[a]and that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God is become my strength);