“I, Yahweh, have called You
for a righteous purpose,[a](A)
and I will hold You by Your hand.(B)
I will keep You and appoint You
to be a covenant for the people(C)
and a light to the nations,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:6 Or you by [My] righteousness; lit you in righteousness

“I, the Lord, have called(A) you in righteousness;(B)
    I will take hold of your hand.(C)
I will keep(D) you and will make you
    to be a covenant(E) for the people
    and a light(F) for the Gentiles,(G)

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Pay attention to Me, My people,
and listen to Me, My nation;
for instruction will come from Me,
and My justice for a light to the nations.(A)
I will bring it about quickly.

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“Listen to me, my people;(A)
    hear me,(B) my nation:
Instruction(C) will go out from me;
    my justice(D) will become a light to the nations.(E)

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32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles[a](A)
and glory to Your people Israel.(B)

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  1. Luke 2:32 Or the nations

32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
    and the glory of your people Israel.”(A)

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47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

I have made you
a light for the Gentiles
to bring salvation
to the ends[a] of the earth.(A)[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:47 Lit the end
  2. Acts 13:47 Is 49:6

47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

“‘I have made you[a] a light for the Gentiles,(A)
    that you[b] may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’[c](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:47 The Greek is singular.
  2. Acts 13:47 The Greek is singular.
  3. Acts 13:47 Isaiah 49:6

23 that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”(A)

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23 that the Messiah would suffer(A) and, as the first to rise from the dead,(B) would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”(C)

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