Isaiah 48:20-49:4

New King James Version

²⁰^(A)Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has ^(B)redeemed
His servant Jacob!”
²¹And they ^(C)did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He ^(D)caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

²²“There^(E) is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

The Servant, the Light to the Gentiles

49 “Listen, ^(F)O coastlands, to Me,
And take heed, you peoples from afar!
^(G)The Lord has called Me from the womb;
From the ^[a]matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.
²And He has made ^(H)My mouth like a sharp sword;
^(I)In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me,
And made Me ^(J)a polished shaft;
In His quiver He has hidden Me.”

³“And He said to me,
^(K)‘You are My servant, O Israel,
^(L)In whom I will be glorified.’
⁴^(M)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my ^[b]just reward is with the Lord,
And my ^[c]work with my God.’ ”