Isaías 49:5-6

The Servant's faith is rewarded by the revelation of a loftier mission than he had heretofore been conscious of.

though Israel be not gathered R.V. "and that Israel be gathered unto him." We have here the same confusion between lô"(not) and lô(to him) as in ch. Isaías 9:3. The verb for "gather," however, is used in two senses, either "to gather in" or "to take away," "gather off" (e.g. Ezequiel 34:29, R.

V. marg.); by adopting the latter we might retain the negative particle as in the consonantal text: and that Israel be not swept away. The clause, at all events, being parallel to the preceding, must express a similar idea; the rendering of A.V. proceeds on a wrong view of the construction.

yet shall I be glorious Rather: and I shall be (or am) honourable (a different root from that used in Isaías 49:3). This second half of the verse seems somewhat out of place in its present context (hence it is marked by R.V. as a parenthesis). Its original position may have been (as Duhm thinks) at the end of Isaías 49:3, reading: "and so I was honourable in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God was my strength."