You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor

Isaiah 49:1-13

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”

he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel—to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” 

Why?

Israel is the servant of the Lord from the beginning.

God will restore the tribes of Jacob and bring them back to the promised land.

No matter what happened in this world, the Lord is the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel. God will turn all mountains into roads,

How?

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice O earth; burst into sound, for the Lord comforts his people.