A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Isaiah 49:3, 5-6
The Lord said to me: You are my servant,/ Israel, through whom I show my glory./ Now the Lord has spoken/ who formed me as his servant from the womb,/ that Jacob may be brought back to him/ and Israel gathered to him;/ and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,/ and my God is now my strength!/ It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant,/ to raise up the tribes of Jacob,/ and restore the survivors of Israel;/ I will make you a light to the nations,/ that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
The word of the Lord.
