Verse 1
Isaiah 49:1
World English Bible, British Edition
1
Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
the LORD has called me from the womb;
from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
Original Language Text
hebrew
שִׁמְע֤וּ אִיִּים֙ אֵלַ֔/י וְ/הַקְשִׁ֥יבוּ לְאֻמִּ֖ים מֵ/רָח֑וֹק יְהוָה֙ מִ/בֶּ֣טֶן קְרָאָ֔/נִי מִ/מְּעֵ֥י אִמִּ֖/י הִזְכִּ֥יר שְׁמִֽ/י
English Translation
Listen, islands, to me, and pay attention, nations from afar. The Lord has called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he has mentioned my name.
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Chapter 49 Context
1
Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
the LORD has called me from the womb;
from t...
2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me...
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3
He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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4
But I said, “I have laboured in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the j...
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5
Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
an...
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6
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Ja...
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7
The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom the n...
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8
The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
I have helped you in a day of salvation....
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9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They s...
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10
They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them,
for he who has mercy o...
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11
I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.
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12
Behold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, these from the north and from the west,
and these fr...
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13
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
Break out into singing, mountains!
For the LORD has comforted h...
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14
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Y...
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16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
Your walls are continually before me.
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17
Your children hurry.
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
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18
Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I l...
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19
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now...
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20
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a p...
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21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for
me, since I have been bereaved of my c...
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22
The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the
nations,
and lift up my banner to the peop...
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23
Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you...
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24
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered?
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25
But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be
taken away,
and the plunder retrieved f...
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26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
and they will be drunk on their own blood, a...
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