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Isaiah 49:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 136-137

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 743-744

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 136-137;

    w51 744; w47 78; w44 216; s 153; w35 281

Isaiah 49:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/2008, p. 15

    12/15/1951, pp. 743-744

    Revelation Climax, p. 282

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 137-138, 151

  • Publications Index

    w08 4/1 15; re 282; ip-2 137-138, 151;

    w51 744; w36 126; w33 294; pp 169; w31 22

Isaiah 49:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 37

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 138-140

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 743-744, 747-748

  • Publications Index

    it-1 37; ip-2 138, 140;

    ad 28; w51 744, 747

Isaiah 49:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 140-141

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 743-744, 745-746

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 140-141;

    w51 744, 746

Isaiah 49:5

Footnotes

  • *

    49:5 Codd.* was to be honored

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 140-141

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 745-746

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 140-141;

    w51 746; w35 282

Isaiah 49:6

Footnotes

  • *

    49:6 Lit. It is too little for your being servant of mine to set

  • *

    49:6 (reach) Lit. be

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 37

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/2009, p. 22

    1/15/2007, p. 9

    12/15/1998, p. 19

    3/15/1994, p. 25

    5/15/1976, pp. 312-314

    12/15/1951, pp. 745-746, 749-751

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 141-142

    Survival, pp. 86-87

  • Publications Index

    it-1 37; w09 1/15 22; w07 1/15 9; ip-2 141-142; w98 12/15 19; w94 3/15 25;

    su 86-87; w76 313-314; ad 28; w51 746, 750; w35 282

Isaiah 49:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 142-143

    The Watchtower,

    5/15/1962, pp. 300-302

    12/15/1951, pp. 749-751, 752-754

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 142-143;

    w62 301; w51 750, 753

Isaiah 49:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 37

    The Watchtower,

    1/15/2009, p. 23

    12/15/1998, p. 19

    6/15/1972, pp. 375-376

    11/1/1970, pp. 661-662

    10/15/1964, pp. 629-631

    9/15/1953, pp. 568-569

    12/15/1951, pp. 741-743

    7/15/1951, pp. 435-437

    Revelation Climax, p. 127

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 143-145, 151

    Survival, pp. 85-86

    Man’s Salvation, p. 149

  • Publications Index

    it-1 37; w09 1/15 23; re 127; ip-2 143-145, 151; w98 12/15 19;

    su 86; sl 149; w72 375; ad 28; w70 661-662; im 397; w64 630; pw 24; g61 8/22 27; sr55 187; w53 568; w51 436, 742; w49 300; w48 336; ch 213; w35 282; jh 133

Isaiah 49:9

Footnotes

  • *

    49:9 Var. By all roadsides they Var. By roadsides they

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 37

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 143-144

    Survival, pp. 85-86

    Man’s Salvation, p. 149

    The Watchtower,

    6/15/1972, pp. 375-376

    12/15/1954, pp. 752-754

    9/15/1953, pp. 568-569

    1/1/1952, pp. 8-10

    12/15/1951, pp. 745-746, 750-752

    7/15/1951, pp. 435-437

  • Publications Index

    it-1 37; ip-2 144;

    su 86; sl 149; w72 375; ad 28; g61 8/22 27; sr55 186; w54 753; w53 568; w52 9; w51 436, 746, 751; w49 300; w47 78; tf 310; w40 264; s 152; w36 108; ch 215; w35 281, 283

Isaiah 49:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Revelation Climax, p. 127

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 143-144

    Survival, p. 87

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 750-752

  • Publications Index

    re 127; ip-2 144;

    su 87; sr55 186; w51 751; w49 301; w46 128; s 153; w35 250, 283; w31 311

Isaiah 49:11

Footnotes

  • *

    49:11 Var. all mountains a road, and turnpikes

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 750-752

  • Publications Index

    sr55 186; w51 751; w46 128; w35 250; w31 311

Isaiah 49:12

Footnotes

  • *

    49:12 (Sinite) Susp.

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 974

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 143-144

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 750-752

    7/1/1951, pp. 403-405

  • Publications Index

    it-2 974; ip-2 144;

    sr55 186; w51 404, 751; w37 75

Isaiah 49:13

Footnotes

  • *

    49:13 Var. is comforting

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 145-146

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 750-752

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 145-146;

    sr55 186; w51 751

Isaiah 49:14

Footnotes

  • *

    49:14 Var. my God has forgotten me

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 146-148

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 146-148;

    w39 251

Isaiah 49:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    7/2021, p. 25

    The Watchtower (Study),

    6/2020, p. 18

    Close to Jehovah, pp. 250-251

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/2012, p. 15

    5/1/2008, pp. 8-9

    9/15/2007, pp. 21-22

    7/1/2003, pp. 18-19

    12/1/1998, p. 32

    7/1/1971, p. 411

    12/15/1961, pp. 752-754

    12/15/1951, pp. 747-748

    Real Faith, p. 3

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 146-147

    Awake!,

    9/8/1982, p. 17

    2/8/1972, p. 3

  • Publications Index

    w21.07 25; w20.06 18; cl 250-251; w12 2/1 15; rk 3; w08 5/1 8-9; w07 9/15 21-22; w03 7/1 18-19; ip-2 146-147; w98 12/1 32;

    g82 9/8 17; g72 2/8 3; w71 411; w61 753; w51 747; w39 251

Isaiah 49:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1029

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 146-147

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1961, pp. 752-754

    12/15/1951, pp. 747-748

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1029; ip-2 146-147;

    ad 709; w61 753; w51 747; w39 251

Isaiah 49:17

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 147-148

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 747-748

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 147;

    w51 747

Isaiah 49:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 147-148

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 751-753

    7/1/1951, pp. 403-405

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 147;

    w51 404, 752

Isaiah 49:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 147-148

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 752-754

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 147-148;

    w51 753; ch 214; w35 282

Isaiah 49:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 147-148

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 752-754

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 147-148;

    w51 753; w49 301; ch 218; w35 283

Isaiah 49:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 147-148

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 752-754

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 148;

    w51 753; w39 159; w33 279; pp 125

Isaiah 49:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 148-149

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 31-32

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 752-754

    7/15/1951, pp. 435-437

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 148-149;

    kj 31; w51 436, 753; g35 10/23 59

Isaiah 49:23

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 219

    Revelation Climax, pp. 60-61

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 148-149

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 31-32

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1952, pp. 126-128

    12/15/1951, pp. 752-754

  • Publications Index

    it-1 219; re 60-61; ip-2 148-149;

    ad 165; kj 31; w52 127; w51 753

Isaiah 49:24

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 149-150

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 753-755

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 149;

    w51 754

Isaiah 49:25

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 149-151

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 753-755

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 149-151;

    w51 754; w35 282

Isaiah 49:26

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, pp. 150-151

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1951, pp. 753-755

  • Publications Index

    ip-2 150-151;

    bf 545; w51 754

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Isaiah 49:1-26

Isaiah

49 Hear me, coasts; listen, every folk afar. Jehovah called me ever since my birth; since I was in my mother’s body he has been speaking my name; 2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, has hid me in the shadow of his hand, and made of me a whetted arrow, screened me in his quiver; 3 and he has said to me “You are my servant, the Israel of whom I make my boast.” 4 But I thought “I have toiled in vain, used up my strength for a nothing and an illusion”; but in fact my rights were with Jehovah and my dues with my God, 5* and now Jehovah says, he who framed me in my mother’s body for servant of his to bring Jacob back to him and to take up Israel, and I was honored in Jehovah’s sight and my God was my strength,— 6** he says “When you are servant of mine it is too little to set the tribes of Jacob on their feet and to bring back the tight-held sons of Israel; I will give you for a light of nations, for my salvation to reach to the end of the earth.”

7 Says Jehovah, Israel’s friend in need, his Holy One, to one despised by men’s propensities, detested by a nation, a slave of rulers: Kings shall see, and stand up; generals, and do reverence; on Jehovah’s account, that he is reliable, Israel’s Holy One, and has chosen you. 8 Says Jehovah, At a time of graciousness I gave you your answer, on a day of salvation I gave you my help, and kept you and gave you for a people’s charter, to set a country on its feet, to assign desolate estates; 9* to say to the prisoners “Come out,” to those who are in darkness “Come into the open.” On all mountains they shall graze, have their pasture on all scalps of rock; 10 they shall not go hungry or thirsty, nor shall desert heat nor sun strike them down, because it is he who feels for them that is driving them, and he will take them by springs of water. 11* And I will make all my mountains a road, and my turnpikes shall run high. 12* Here will these come in from far away, and here these from the north and the west, and these from the Sinite country. 13* Shout, sky, and jubilate, earth! let mountains break out in shouting! for Jehovah has comforted his people and will have compassion on his unfortunates.

14* But Sion says “Jehovah has left me; my Lord has forgotten me.” 15 Will a woman forget her baby, so as to have no feeling about the child of her own body? even they may forget and I will not forget you. 16 Here I have drawn your picture on my hands; I have your walls before me always. 17 Those that build you up work faster than did those who demolished you, and those who laid you waste have gone out of you. 18 Lift your eyes in every direction and see! they all gather, they are coming to you! by my life, quoth Jehovah, you shall wear them all as jewels and tie them on like a bride’s ribbons. 19 Whereas I had laid you waste and desolate, demolished you to the ground, now you shall be too scanty for the population, and those that wrecked you will be far away; 20 you shall yet hear the sons born during your childlessness saying “The place is too scanty for me; move out of my way so I can settle down.” 21 And you will say to yourself “Who gave birth to these for me, when I was childless and beyond hope, who raised these? there was I left alone, where were these?”

22 Says the Lord Jehovah, Here, I will lift my hand to nations and raise my signal to peoples, and they shall bring your sons in the folds of cloaks, and your daughters shall be carried on sides, 23 and kings shall be your foster-fathers and their queens your nurses; they shall do reverence to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust off your feet; and you shall know that I am Jehovah who do not disappoint those who put their hope in me.

24 Will his captures be taken from a champion, or will a tyrant’s prisoners get away? 25 For Jehovah says “Even a champion’s prisoners will be taken from him and a tyrant’s captures will get away; and I will combat those who combat you, I will save your sons, 26 and will set those who ill-treat you to eating their own flesh; they shall fuddle themselves with their own blood as if it were pomegranate-wine; and all mortals shall know that I Jehovah am your savior, and your friend in need is the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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