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He said to me, “You are my true servant Israel.
    I will show my glory through you.”
But I said, “In spite of my hard work,
    I feel as if I haven’t accomplished anything.
I’ve used up all my strength.
    It seems as if everything I’ve done is worthless.
But the Lord will give me what I should receive.
    My God will reward me.”

The Lord formed me in my mother’s body to be his servant.
    He wanted me to bring the family of Jacob back to him.
He wanted me to gather the people of Israel to himself.
    The Lord will honor me.
    My God will give me strength.

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He said to me, “You are my servant,(A)
    Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(B)
But I said, “I have labored in vain;(C)
    I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(D)
    and my reward(E) is with my God.”(F)

And now the Lord says—
    he who formed me in the womb(G) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
    and gather Israel(H) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(I) in the eyes of the Lord
    and my God has been my strength(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be