Listen, islands, to me. Jer 1:5Gal 1:15Isa 44:2Isa 49:5Luk 1:311Pe 1:20Luk 2:10-11Mat 1:20-21
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
the LORD has called me from the womb;
from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. Heb 4:12Rev 1:16Isa 50:4Rev 2:12Isa 11:4Isa 51:16Jer 1:18Psa 91:1
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.
He said to me, “You are my servant, Isa 42:11Pe 2:9Isa 44:23Isa 52:13Jhn 17:1Jhn 17:4Zec 3:8Isa 53:10
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
But I said, “I have labored in vain. Isa 35:4Gal 4:112Co 12:152Co 2:15Ezk 3:19Isa 40:10Isa 53:10-12Isa 62:11
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.”
Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, Jhn 3:35Mat 17:51Pe 3:22Mat 28:18Rom 15:81Th 2:15-16Eph 1:20-22Isa 11:12
says 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.
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, Act 13:47Isa 42:6Luk 2:32Psa 98:2-3Isa 52:10Isa 60:3Luk 24:46-47Act 26:18
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.”
The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, 1Pe 2:4Isa 53:3Mat 26:67Isa 48:17Psa 22:6-8Psa 72:10-11Isa 49:23Isa 49:1
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.”
The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. 2Co 6:2Isa 42:6Psa 69:13Heb 12:24Isa 61:4Isa 58:12Eph 2:12-19Heb 5:7
I have helped you in a day of salvation.
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,
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; 1Pe 2:9Isa 42:16Isa 42:7Luk 4:18Isa 61:1Isa 9:2Psa 102:20Psa 69:33
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They shall feed along the paths,
and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; Rev 7:16-17Mat 5:6Ezk 34:23Isa 33:16Psa 121:5-6Isa 40:11Jer 31:9Jhn 10:3-4
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.
I will make all my mountains a road, Isa 11:16Isa 35:8-10Isa 62:10Luk 3:4-5Isa 40:3-4Isa 43:19Isa 57:14Jhn 14:6
and my highways shall be exalted.
Behold, these shall come from afar, Isa 43:5-6Isa 11:10-11Isa 2:2-3Isa 60:9-14Isa 66:19-20Luk 13:29Mat 8:11Mic 4:2
and behold, these from the north and from the west,
and these from the land of Sinim.”
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Isa 44:23Isa 51:3Psa 96:11-13Isa 40:1-2Isa 52:9Luk 2:13-142Th 2:16-17Isa 12:1
Break out into singing, mountains!
For the LORD has comforted his people,
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, Isa 40:27Rom 11:1-5Jer 23:39Lam 5:20Psa 22:1Psa 31:22Psa 89:38-46Psa 13:1
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, Isa 44:21Psa 103:13Mat 7:11Jer 31:20Hos 11:1Mal 3:17Lam 4:101Ki 3:26-27
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, these may forget,
yet I will not forget you!
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Hag 2:23Isa 60:18Isa 62:6Sng 8:6Exo 13:9Isa 26:1Isa 54:12Psa 48:12-13
Your walls are continually before me.
Your children hurry. Isa 51:13Isa 62:5Ezk 28:24Isa 51:22-23Ezr 1:5Isa 10:6Isa 49:19Isa 51:18-20
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: Isa 54:1-3Isa 61:10Isa 66:12-13Isa 54:9Isa 43:5-6Isa 49:12Isa 54:7Isa 66:20
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,
and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, Zec 10:10Isa 54:1-2Jer 30:18-19Hos 1:10-11Isa 49:25-26Isa 51:3Psa 56:1-2Ezk 36:3
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, Jos 17:14-162Ki 6:1Gal 4:26-28Hos 1:10Isa 51:3Isa 54:1-3Isa 60:4Mat 3:9
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a place to live in.’
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children Gal 3:29Gal 4:26-29Isa 1:8Isa 3:26Isa 5:13Isa 51:17-20Isa 52:2Isa 54:3-8
and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth?
Who has brought these up?
Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, Isa 14:2Luk 13:29Psa 86:9Isa 11:10-12Isa 2:2-3Isa 42:1-4Isa 49:12Isa 60:3-11
and lift up my banner to the peoples.
They shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Kings shall be your foster fathers, Isa 60:14Isa 60:16Isa 60:3Mic 7:17Isa 45:14Isa 60:10-11Rom 10:11Psa 25:3
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD;
and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, Luk 11:21-22Psa 124:6-7Mat 12:29Ezk 37:3Isa 42:22Ezr 9:13Ezr 9:9Psa 126:1-3
or the lawful captives be delivered?
But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, Isa 54:15-17Isa 35:4Isa 41:11-12Jer 50:33-34Isa 54:13Rom 8:31-39Zec 14:12Isa 10:27
and the plunder retrieved from the fierce,
for I will contend with him who contends with you
and I will save your children.
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; Isa 9:20Isa 41:14-20Isa 9:4Rev 16:6Ezk 39:7Isa 43:3Isa 60:16Psa 9:16
and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine.
Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”