Isaiah Chapter 49

• Isaiah 49:1
  Isaiah.
• Isaiah 49:2
  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.
• Isaiah 49:3
  He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiv...
• Isaiah 49:4
  He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
• Isaiah 49:5
  But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward wi...
• 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 t...
• Isaiah 49:7
  Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I wil...
• Isaiah 49:8
  The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall...
• Isaiah 49:9
  The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of...
• Isaiah 49:10
  saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall...
• Isaiah 49:11
  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by sprin...
• Isaiah 49:12
  I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
• Isaiah 49:13
  Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.”
• Isaiah 49:14
  Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflict...
• Isaiah 49:15
  But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
• Isaiah 49:16
  “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
• Isaiah 49:17
  Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
• Isaiah 49:18
  Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
• Isaiah 49:19
  Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe your...
• Isaiah 49:20
  “For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, a...
• Isaiah 49:21
  The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
• Isaiah 49:22
  Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back...
• Isaiah 49:23
  The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, an...
• Isaiah 49:24
  Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust ...
• Isaiah 49:25
  Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
• Isaiah 49:26
  But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who co...
• Isaiah 49:27
  I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that ...