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Isaiah 49 📜 📕 ↷
6 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.📜💬📚
7 Thus saith our Lord the redeemer of Israel, the holy one thereof, to the contemptible soul, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of lords: kings shall see, & princes shall rise, & adore for our Lord's sake, because he is faithful, & for the holy one of Israel who hath chosen thee.📜💬📚
8 Thus saith our Lord: In time acceptable I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have holpen thee: and I have kept thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the land, and possess the inheritances dissipated.📜💬📚
9 That thou mightest say to them, that are bound: Come forth, & to them that are in darkness: Be ye discovered. Upon the ways shall they feed, & their pastures shall be in all plains.📜💬📚
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, & heat and sun shall not strike them: because he that is merciful to them shall govern them, and all the fountains of waters shall give them drink.📜💬📚
11 And I will make all my mountains to be a way, & my paths shall be exalted.📜💬📚
12 Behold these shall come from far, & behold they from the North and the sea, and these from the South country.📜💬📚
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see, all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith our Lord, for thou shalt be clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.📜💬📚
19 Because thy deserts, and thy solitary places, & the land of thy ruin, shall now be strait by reason of the inhabitants, & they shall be chased far away that swallowed thee up.📜💬📚
20 As yet shall the children of thy barrenness say in thine ears: The place is strait for me, make me space to dwell.📜💬📚
21 And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begot me these? I am barren & not bearing, led into transmigration, & captive: & these who hath brought up? I destitute & alone: & these where were they?📜💬📚
22 Thus saith our Lord God: behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, & to the peoples I will exalt my sign. And they shall carry thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters upon their shoulders.📜💬📚
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, & queens thy nurses: with countenance cast down toward the ground they shall adore thee, & they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, upon whom they shall not be confounded that expect him.📜💬📚
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