Isaiah 49:3-5

Living Bible

³ He said to me: “You are my servant, a prince of power^[a] with God, and you shall bring me glory.”

⁴ I replied, “But my work for them seems all in vain; I have spent my strength for them without response. Yet I leave it all with God for my reward.”

⁵ “And now,” said the Lord—the Lord who formed me from my mother’s womb to serve him who commissioned me to restore to him his people Israel, who has given me the strength to perform this task and honored me for doing it!—