Isaiah 49:6

"Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, 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."

Key Reflection

The Lord declares that He formed Isaiah from his mother's womb to be His servant, a role of great significance and honor in God’s eyes. This prophecy reassures Isaiah of his divine call to restore the exiled Israelites, bringing them back to Jerusalem where they can once again worship Him. The original audience would have understood this as a powerful affirmation of Isaiah’s mission, emphasizing both its importance and the strength that comes from trusting in the Lord.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And he said -That is, Yahweh said in his promise to the Messiah. It is a light thing -Margin, ‘Art thou lighter than that thou,’ etc. Lowth renders it, ‘It is a small thing.’ Hengstenberg, ‘It is too little that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob.’ The sense is, that God designed to glorify him in an eminent degree, and that it would not be as much honor as be designed to confer on him, to appoint him merely to produce a reformation among the Jews, and to recover them to the spiritual worship of God. He designed him for a far more important work - for the recovery of the Gentile world, and for the spread of the true religion among all nations.

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