Isaiah 49

1LISTEN O ISLANDS TO ME AND PAY ATTENTION O PEOPLES FROM A DISTANCE YAHWEH FROM [THE] WOMB HE CALLED ME FROM [THE] INWARD PARTS OF MOTHER MY HE HAS BROUGHT TO REMEMBRANCE NAME MY

2AND HE MADE MOUTH MY LIKE A SWORD SHARP IN [THE] SHADOW OF HAND HIS HE HID ME AND HE MADE ME <INTO> AN ARROW POLISHED IN QUIVER HIS HE CONCEALED ME

3AND HE SAID TO ME [ARE] SERVANT MY YOU ISRAEL WHOM BY YOU I WILL GET GLORY FOR MYSELF

4AND I I SAID TO EMPTINESS I HAVE LABORED TO NOTHINGNESS AND FUTILITY STRENGTH MY I HAVE CAUSED TO FAIL NEVERTHELESS JUSTICE MY [IS] WITH YAHWEH AND RECOMPENSE MY [IS] WITH GOD MY

5AND NOW HE SAYS YAHWEH [WHO] FORMED ME FROM [THE] WOMB <INTO> A SERVANT OF HIM TO BRING BACK JACOB TO HIM AND ISRAEL TO HIM IT WILL BE GATHERED AND I MAY BE HONORED IN [THE] EYES OF YAHWEH AND GOD MY HE HAS BEEN STRENGTH MY

6AND HE SAID IT IS [TOO] TRIFLING FOR BEING YOU OF ME SERVANT TO RAISE UP <OBJ.> [THE] TRIBES OF JACOB AND [THE] PRESERVED [ONES] OF ISRAEL TO BRING BACK AND I WILL MAKE YOU <INTO> A LIGHT OF [THE] NATIONS TO BE SALVATION MY TO [THE] END OF THE EARTH

7THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH [THE] REDEEMER OF ISRAEL HOLY [ONE] ITS TO DESPISE LIFE TO [ONE WHO] ABHORS <OF> A NATION TO A SERVANT OF RULERS KINGS THEY WILL SEE AND THEY WILL STAND UP PRINCES SO THEY MAY BOW DOWN ON ACCOUNT OF YAHWEH WHO [IS] FAITHFUL [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL AND HE HAS CHOSEN YOU

8THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH IN A TIME OF FAVOR I WILL ANSWER YOU AND ON A DAY OF SALVATION I WILL HELP YOU AND I WILL WATCH OVER YOU AND I WILL MAKE YOU <INTO> A COVENANT OF [THE] PEOPLE TO RAISE UP [THE] LAND TO GIVE AS INHERITANCE INHERITANCES DESOLATE

9TO SAY TO [THE] PRISONERS COME OUT TO [THOSE] WHO [ARE] IN <THE> DARKNESS REVEAL YOURSELVES ON ROADS THEY WILL GRAZE AND [WILL BE] ON ALL BARE HEIGHTS PASTURE THEIR

10NOT THEY WILL BE HUNGRY AND NOT THEY WILL BE THIRSTY AND NOT IT WILL STRIKE THEM BURNING HEAT AND SUN FOR [ONE WHO] HAS COMPASSION ON THEM HE WILL GUIDE THEM AND TO SPRINGS OF WATER HE WILL LEAD THEM

11AND I WILL MAKE ALL MOUNTAINS MY INTO <THE> ROAD AND HIGHWAYS MY THEY WILL BE LIFTED UP!

12HERE! THESE FROM A DISTANCE THEY WILL COME AND HERE! THESE FROM [THE] NORTH AND FROM [THE] WEST AND THESE FROM [THE] LAND OF SINIM

13SHOUT FOR JOY O HEAVEN AND BE GLAD O EARTH AND BREAK FORTH O MOUNTAINS A SHOUT OF JOY FOR HE HAS COMFORTED YAHWEH PEOPLE HIS AND AFFLICTED [PEOPLE] HIS HE HAS COMPASSION ON

14AND IT SAID ZION HE HAS FORSAKEN ME YAHWEH AND [THE] LORD HE HAS FORGOTTEN ME

15¿ WILL SHE FORGET A WOMAN SUCKING CHILD HER FROM HAVING COMPASSION ON [THE] CHILD OF WOMB HER ALSO THESE THEY WILL FORGET AND I NOT I WILL FORGET YOU

16HERE! ON PALMS OF HANDS I HAVE INSCRIBED YOU WALLS YOUR [ARE] BEFORE ME CONTINUALLY

17THEY HAVE MADE HASTE CHILDREN YOUR [THOSE WHO] TEAR DOWN YOU AND [THOSE WHO] MAKE DESOLATE YOU FROM YOU THEY WILL GO OUT

18LIFT UP ALL AROUND EYES YOUR AND SEE ALL OF THEM THEY HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER THEY HAVE COME TO YOU [BY] [THE] LIFE OF ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH THAT ALL OF THEM LIKE <THE> ORNAMENT[S] YOU WILL PUT ON AND YOU WILL TIE ON THEM LIKE <THE> BRIDE

19FOR WASTE PLACES YOUR AND DESOLATE [PLACES] YOUR AND [THE] LAND OF DESTRUCTION YOUR FOR NOW YOU WILL BE [TOO] CRAMPED FOR [THE] INHABITANT[S] AND THEY WILL BE FAR AWAY [THOSE WHO] SWALLOWED UP YOU

20YET THEY WILL SAY IN EARS YOUR [THE] CHILDREN OF BEREAVEMENT<S> YOUR IT IS CRAMPED FOR ME THE PLACE DRAW NEAR! FOR ME SO LET ME DWELL

21AND YOU WILL SAY IN HEART YOUR WHO? DID HE FATHER FOR ME <OBJ.> THESE [CHILDREN] AND I [WAS] BEREAVED AND BARREN GONE INTO EXILE AND THRUST AWAY AND THESE [CHILDREN] WHO? DID HE BRING UP HERE! I I REMAINED TO ALONE ME THESE [CHILDREN] WHERE? [ARE] THEY

22THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE! I WILL LIFT UP TO [THE] NATIONS HAND MY AND TO PEOPLES I WILL RAISE STANDARD MY AND THEY WILL BRING SONS YOUR IN A BOSOM AND DAUGHTERS YOUR ON A SHOULDER THEY WILL BE CARRIED

23AND THEY WILL BE KINGS FOSTER-FATHERS YOUR AND PRINCESSES THEIR SUCKLING-NURSES YOUR FACES GROUND THEY WILL BOW DOWN TO YOU AND [THE] DUST OF FEET YOUR THEY WILL LICK UP AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH WHOM NOT THEY WILL BE ASHAMED [THOSE WHO] WAIT FOR ME

24¿ WILL IT BE TAKEN FROM A WARRIOR BOOTY AND OR? [THE] CAPTIVE[S] OF [THE] RIGHTEOUS WILL IT ESCAPE

25FOR THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH ALSO A CAPTIVE OF A WARRIOR HE WILL BE TAKEN AND [THE] BOOTY OF A RUTHLESS [PERSON] IT WILL BE DELIVERED AND <OBJ.> OPPONENT YOUR I I WILL OPPOSE AND <OBJ.> CHILDREN YOUR I I WILL SAVE

26AND I WILL CAUSE TO EAT <OBJ.> [THOSE WHO] MALTREAT YOU <OBJ.> OWN FLESH THEIR AND LIKE <THE> SWEET WINE OWN BLOOD THEIR THEY WILL BECOME DRUNK! AND THEY WILL KNOW ALL FLESH THAT I [AM] YAHWEH DELIVERER YOUR AND REDEEMER YOUR [THE] MIGHTY ONE OF JACOB