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Text -- Isaiah 49:1-18 (NET)
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Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles
49:1 Listen to me, you coastlands ! Pay attention , you people who live far away ! The Lord summoned me from birth ; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.
49:2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword , he hid me in the hollow of his hand ; he made me like a sharpened arrow , he hid me in his quiver .
49:3 He said to me, “You are my servant , Israel , through whom I will reveal my splendor .”
49:4 But I thought , “I have worked in vain ; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing .” But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
49:5 So now the Lord says , the one who formed me from birth to be his servant – he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the Lord’s sight , for my God is my source of strength –
49:6 he says , “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant , to reestablish the tribes of Jacob , and restore the remnant of Israel ? I will make you a light to the nations , so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth .”
49:7 This is what the Lord , the protector of Israel , their Holy One , says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations , a servant of rulers : “Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down , because of the faithful Lord , the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”
49:8 This is what the Lord says : “At the time I decide to show my favor , I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people , to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property .
49:9 You will say to the prisoners , ‘Come out ,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons , ‘Emerge .’ They will graze beside the roads ; on all the slopes they will find pasture .
49:10 They will not be hungry or thirsty ; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water .
49:11 I will make all my mountains into a road ; I will construct my roadways .”
49:12 Look , they come from far away! Look , some come from the north and west , and others from the land of Sinim !
49:13 Shout for joy , O sky ! Rejoice , O earth ! Let the mountains give a joyful shout ! For the Lord consoles his people and shows compassion to the oppressed .
The Lord Remembers Zion
49:14 “Zion said , ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
49:15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast ? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne ? Even if mothers were to forget , I could never forget you!
49:16 Look , I have inscribed your name on my palms ; your walls are constantly before me.
49:17 Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart .
49:18 Look all around you ! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live ,” says the Lord , “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry ; you will put them on as if you were a bride .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Isaiah |
Isaiah, The Book of |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Church |
Jesus, The Christ |
Israel |
ISAIAH, BOOK OF |
God |
SERVANT OF JEHOVAH; SERVANT OF THE LORD; SERVANT OF YAHWEH |
ATONEMENT |
GOD, 2 |
CHOOSE; CHOSEN |
Gentiles |
Righteous |
Seekers |
ACCOMMODATION |
Heaven |
QUIVER |
Light |
Doubting |
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NET Notes -> Isa 49:1; Isa 49:1; Isa 49:1; Isa 49:1; Isa 49:2; Isa 49:2; Isa 49:3; Isa 49:4; Isa 49:4; Isa 49:4; Isa 49:5; Isa 49:5; Isa 49:5; Isa 49:5; Isa 49:6; Isa 49:6; Isa 49:6; Isa 49:6; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:8; Isa 49:8; Isa 49:8; Isa 49:8; Isa 49:9; Isa 49:9; Isa 49:9; Isa 49:10; Isa 49:12; Isa 49:12; Isa 49:13; Isa 49:13; Isa 49:14; Isa 49:15; Isa 49:15; Isa 49:15; Isa 49:15; Isa 49:16; Isa 49:18
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NET Notes: Isa 49:2 The figurative language emphasizes the servant’s importance as the Lord’s effective instrument. The servant’s mouth, which stands me...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:3 This verse identifies the servant as Israel. This seems to refer to the exiled nation (cf. 41:8-9; 44:1-2, 21; 45:4; 48:20), but in vv. 5-6 this serva...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:5 Heb “and my God is [perhaps, “having been”] my strength.” The disjunctive structure (vav [ו] + subject + verb) is interp...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:7 For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.
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NET Notes: Isa 49:10 Heb “and the heat and the sun will not strike them.” In Isa 35:7, its only other occurrence in the OT, שָׁרָ...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:12 The precise location of the land of Sinim is uncertain, but since the north and west are mentioned in the previous line, it was a probably located in ...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:15 The argument of v. 15 seems to develop as follows: The Lord has an innate attachment to Zion, just like a mother does for her infant child. But even i...
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