3. He said to me, ‘You are my servant,Israel, in whom I will display my splendour.’
4. But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain;I have spent my strength for nothing at all.Yet what is due to me is in the Lord’s hand,and my reward is with my God.’
5. And now the Lord says –he who formed me in the womb to be his servantto bring Jacob back to himand gather Israel to himself,for I am honoured in the eyes of the Lordand my God has been my strength –
6. he says:‘It is too small a thing for you to be my servantto restore the tribes of Jacoband bring back those of Israel I have kept.I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.’
7. This is what the Lord says –the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel –to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,to the servant of rulers:‘Kings will see you and stand up,princes will see and bow down,because of the Lord, who is faithful,the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.’