Isaiah 49:1

Listen to me, you coastlands! ¹  Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; ²  he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. ³ 

Ps 71:5,6; Isa 41:1; Isa 42:1-4,12; Isa 45:22; Isa 49:5; Isa 51:5; Isa 55:3; Isa 57:19; Isa 60:9; Isa 66:19; Jer 1:5; Zep 2:11; Mt 1:20,21; Lu 1:15,31-31; Lu 2:10,11; Joh 10:36; Ga 1:15; Eph 2:17; Heb 12:25; 1Pe 1:20

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.

² tn Heb “called me from the womb.”

³ tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”