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Isaiah 49:3

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

Thou art my servant, O Israel - applied to Messiah, according to the true import of the name, the Prince who had power with God in wrestling in behalf of man, and who prevails (; Hosea 12:3). He is also the ideal Israel, the representative-man of the nation (cf. with ).

In whom I will be glorified - (; John 17:1.)

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See also Isaiah 49:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND SAID UNTO ME - That is, as I suppose, to the Messiah. God said to him that he was his servant; he by whom he would be particularly glorified and honored. THOU ART MY SERVANT, O ISRAEL - There has...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, HIS SUFFERING AND HIS GLORY (49-57) CHAPTER 49 The Servant of Jehovah and His Mission 1. _The servant speaks of himself (Isaiah 49:1)_ 2. _He complains of failure (Isaiah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PREPARATION OF YAHWEH'S SERVANT, AND ITS PURPOSE (the second Servant Song). The Servant of Yahweh speaks, bidding the far lands hearken; for them he has a glorious message, which is, however, not...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY SERVANT. See note on Isaiah 37:36. ISRAEL. Prince of GOD. Messiah making this use of, and applying the name to Himself. Israel could not "raise up" Israel (Isaiah 49:6). Christ is called"Israel" in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The call and equipment of the Servant by Jehovah. The nations of the world are addressed, because the great announcement that the speaker has to make (Isaiah 49:6) concerns them. Although Jeremiah had...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The word _Israel_may be read either as a vocative or as a continuation of the predicate: "(Thou art) Israel &c." (see R.V.). On either view it presents insuperable difficulties to those who hold that...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 49:1-13. The Servant of Jehovah: His Fidelity amidst Discouragements, and the ultimate Success of His Mission The beginning of ch. 49 seems to mark a distinct advance in the development of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Servant's address to the nations. The passage forms the natural sequel to ch. Isaiah 42:1-4, and adds some fresh features to the portrait there presented. (1) The Servant, speaking now in his own...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LISTEN, O ISLES— In these verses we have first the exordium to the _isles, and far distant people,_ that is to say, the Gentiles, who are frequently addressed by the appellation of _isles,_ as we have...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. PROGRAM OF THE LORD'S SERVANT, Chapter S 49 - 53 1. RESCUE, CHAPTER 49 a. DESPISED SERVANT TEXT: Isaiah 49:1-6 1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: Jehovah hath call...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 49 ‘MY SPECIAL SERVANT’ In the Book of Isaiah, the meaning of ‘my (that is, the *Lord’s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU ART MY SERVANT, O ISRAEL. — Not that the “Servant” is merely the nation, but that he fulfils its ideal. “Israel” had begun with being an individual name. It should be so once more in the person o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר לִ֖י עַבְדִּי ־אָ֑תָּה יִשְׂרָאֵ֕ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIX PROPHET AND MARTYR Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 50:4 THE second great passage upon the Servant of the Lord is Isaiah 49:1, and the third is...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXI DOUBTS IN THE WAY Isaiah 49:1 - Isaiah 52:12 Chapter S 49-53 are, as we have seen, a series of more or less closely joined passages, in which the prophet, having already made the politic...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES” Isaiah 48:17-22; Isaiah 49:1-13 The first division of this second part of Isaiah closes at Isaiah 48:22, with the phrase _there is no peace to the wicked_. The second divisi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now commence the section in which the Prince of Peace is most clearly seen. He is revealed first as sustained through suffering (Chapter s 49-53), and then as singing in triumph (Chapter s 54-57)....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And said to me, Thou [art] my servant, O (e) Israel, in whom I will be glorified. (e) By Israel is meant Christ, and all the body of the faithful, as the members and their head....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Glory. In the Church, God is adored in spirit and truth. Isaias is ordered thus to address the Israelites._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We find here some glorious speaker, calling upon the nations of the isles to attend to him, and declaring both the authority upon which he spoke, and the subject of his discourse. And if we make appli...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._Thou art my servant, O Israel. _It is of great importance to connect this verse with the preceding, because this shews that the Prophet now speaks not only of a single man, but of the whole nation;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Messiah is brought in, for it is He who delivers. But it is a question apart, so to say. The subject of Christ, and of the people's guilt with respect to Him, begins with chapter 49, which, with t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SAID UNTO ME,.... Both in the everlasting council, and when he made a covenant with him in eternity; when he found him and anointed him, and laid help on him; and also when he brought him, his fir...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And said unto me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Ver. 3. _Thou art my servant, O Israel,_] _i.e., _ O Christ, who best deservest to be called by that name, who art also...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword_ As he hath made me the great Teacher of his church and of the world, so he hath assisted me by his Spirit, and made my word or doctrine _quick and powerful_,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and said unto Me, Thou art My Servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified, the Messiah being the true Israel, He who battled with God and with men and remained victorious and was therefore elevated...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE TESTIMONY OF JEHOVAH'S SERVANT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The great Author of redemption shows the authority for his work. The sword of his word slays the lusts of his people, and all at enmity with them. His sharp arrows wound the conscience; but all t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    As the name of David is sometimes given to his successors, 1 KINGS 12:16, and particularly to Christ, JEREMIAH 30:9 EZEKIEL 34:23 HOSEA 3:5, a

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 49:3 said H559 (H8799) servant H5650 Israel H3478 glorified H6286 (H8691) Isaiah 42:1,

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WORDS OF THE SERVANT (ISAIAH 49:1). Isaiah 49:1 ‘Listen to me, O coastlands/isles, And hear you peoples from afar, Yahweh has called me from the womb, From the inner parts of my mother he has...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people from, far; The LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this chapter, we have not merely Isaiah speaking concerning the Christ of God; but it is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who here speaks concerning himself. Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel's coming Redeemer. Preservation and restoration of Israel and judgment on oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: God, of old, promised a Redeemer to His people who would al...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, oh isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people from far._ The Hebrews reckoned among the isles, not only those of Greece, but the gentile nations generally, who are represented as wai...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:1 The trusting servant of the Lord will save his despairing people with a salvation available for the whole world. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:3 MY SERVANT, ISRAEL. Comparing vv. Isaiah 49:5, this servant Israel restores the nation Israel. The servant is the true embodiment of what the nation fa

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    OUR SAVIOUR AND THE WORK OF OUR SALVATION Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, &c._ It is to the Gentiles, to _us_, that Christ here speaks concerning Himself and the work of salvation (Isaiah 49...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION III. THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD (CH. 49-53). EXPOSITION The connection of the present section is especially with Isaiah 42:1, where the mission of the Servant of Jehovah was f

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 49, we have a fabulous prophecy of Jesus Christ in the first seven verses as God speaks of the Redeemer that He is sending. Listen, O coasts, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 1:6; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:21; Isaiah 44:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    O Israel — As the name of David is sometimes given to his successors, so here the name of Israel may not unfitly be given to Christ, not only because he descended from his loins; but also because he w...

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