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Isaiah 49:1
New English Translation
Isaiah 49:1
New English Translation
Delivery of the Exiles
49 Listen to me, you coastlands![a]
Pay attention, you people who live far away!
The Lord summoned me from birth;[b]
he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.[c]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”sn The Lord’s special servant, introduced in chap. 42, speaks here of his commission.
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Heb “called me from the womb.”
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”
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