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Isaiah 49:1-5

Isaiah 49:1-5 CSB

Coasts and islands,  listen to me; distant peoples, pay attention. The Lord called  me before I was born. He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.  He made my words like a sharp sword;  he hid me in the shadow of his hand.  He made me like a sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant,  Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” But I myself said: I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the  Lord, and my reward is with my God. And now, says the  Lord, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him; for I am honored in the sight of the  Lord, and my God is my strength —

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