3. And he said to me, “You are my servant,Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4. But I said, “I have labored in vain;I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;yet surely my right is with the Lord,and my recompense with my God.”
5. And now the Lord says,he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,to bring Jacob back to him;and that Israel might be gathered to him—for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,and my God has become my strength—
6. he says:“It is too light a thing that you should be my servantto raise up the tribes of Jacoband to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations,that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
7. Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise;princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;because of the Lord, who is faithful,the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8. Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you;in a day of salvation I have helped you;I will keep you and give youas a covenant to the people,to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,
9. saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways;on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
10. they shall not hunger or thirst,neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them,for he who has pity on them will lead them,and by springs of water will guide them.