This is the Bayhma podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings.

Today we press on into the final chapters of Isaiah's servant discourse,

hearing the famous passage of God's suffering servant and searching for the fruit of those trials.

Yes indeed. I don't have any wonderful intro or set up today. We should just dive right on in. We kind of left off, not really in the middle of anything, but we weren't done with the, with Isaiah's servant discourse yet. So, we could just jump right back in in a chapter 49.

Okay, starting in verse five, and now the Lord says,

he who formed me in the womb to be his servant

to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself,

for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength.

He says, it is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept.

I will also make you a light for the Gentiles that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

This is what the Lord says, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel.

To Him, who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers.

Kings will see you and stand up.

Princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.

Right, so this is the first time that the servant reference raises some questions and there are some discrepancies in manuscripts.

I'm interested Brent to see if the NET has anything to say about the end of verse 5 there, 49-5.

Because my understanding is that there are some manuscript discrepancies.

Jewish perspective wrestles with the servant in Isaiah.

None of them, Shocker, are going to say that the servant is Jesus. So we might

as Jesus' followers, but the Jewish conversation will not for obvious reasons. They do argue about whether or not the servant is God's people,

which on some level has just blatantly been true, I feel like, in front of us. But then some people

also say that the servant, when it takes on a more

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