“He (God) said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, and you will bring me glory.’
I replied ‘But my work seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and for no purpose. Yet I leave it all in the Lord’s hand; I will trust in God for my reward.’
And now the Lord speaks – the one who formed me in my mother’s womb to be His servant, who commissioned me to bring Israel back to Him. The Lord has honored me, and my God has given me strength. He says,’You will do more than restores the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’
The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: ‘Kings will stant at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.'” (vv. 3-7, NLT)