God’s servant and son—his vassal—is “appointed” to restore God’s people Israel
(See the terms “servant” and “son” to denote vassalship; 2 Kings 16:7)
Isaiah 42:1, 6–7
My servant whom I sustain,
my chosen one in whom I delight,
him I have endowed with my Spirit;
he will dispense justice to the Gentiles. . . .
I Jehovah have rightfully called you
and will grasp you by the hand;
I have created you and appointed you
to be a covenant for the people,
a light to the Gentiles,
to open eyes that are blind,
to free captives from confinement
and from prison those who sit in darkness.
Isaiah 49:5–6
For now Jehovah has said—
he who formed me from the womb
to be his servant, to restore Jacob to him,
Israel having been gathered to him;
for I won honor in the eyes of Jehovah
when my God became my strength—
he said: It is too small a thing
for you to be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore those preserved of Israel.
I will also appoint you to be a light to the Gentiles,
that my salvation may be to the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:8–12
At a favorable time I have answered you;
in the day of salvation I have come to your aid:
I have created you and appointed you
to be a covenant of the people,
to restore the Land and reapportion the desolate estates,
to say to the captives, Come forth!
and to those in darkness, Show yourselves!
They shall feed along the way
and find pasture on all barren heights;
they shall not hunger or thirst,
nor be smitten by the heatwave or the sun:
he who has mercy on them will guide them;
he will lead them by springs of water.
All my mountain ranges I will appoint as roads;
my highways shall be on high.
See these, coming from afar, these, from the northwest,
and these, from the land of Sinim.
Isaiah 55:3–4
Give ear and come unto me;
pay heed, that your souls may live!
And I will make with you an everlasting covenant:
[my] loving fidelity toward David.
See, I have appointed him as a witness to the nations,
a prince and lawgiver of the peoples.
Isaiah 9:6
To us a child is born, a son appointed,
who will shoulder the burden of government.
He will be called
Wonderful Counsellor, One Mighty in Valor,
a Father for Ever, a Prince of Peace.
(See other “princes of peace”; Alma 13:18; Abraham 1:2)
