Isaiah 49:14-26

14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
17 Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’ ”
22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
24 Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce[a] ?
25 But this is what the LORD says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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Cross References 46

  • 1. Isaiah 40:9
  • 2. S Psalms 9:10; S Psalms 71:11; S Isaiah 27:8
  • 3. S 1 Kings 3:26; Isaiah 66:13
  • 4. S Isaiah 44:21
  • 5. S Genesis 38:18; S Exodus 28:9; Song of Songs 8:6
  • 6. Psalms 48:12-13; Isaiah 62:6
  • 7. S Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 37:18
  • 8. S Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 43:5; Isaiah 51:3; Isaiah 54:7; Isaiah 60:4
  • 9. S Numbers 14:21; Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 54:9; Isaiah 62:8; Romans 14:11*
  • 10. Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 61:10; Jeremiah 2:32
  • 11. S Leviticus 26:33; Isaiah 54:1,3; Isaiah 60:18; Isaiah 62:4
  • 12. S Isaiah 5:6
  • 13. Ezekiel 36:10-11; Zechariah 10:10
  • 14. S Isaiah 1:20
  • 15. Isaiah 54:1-3; Zechariah 2:4; Zechariah 10:10
  • 16. Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 66:7-8
  • 17. S Isaiah 47:8; Isaiah 54:1
  • 18. Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 54:6
  • 19. Isaiah 60:8
  • 20. S Isaiah 1:8
  • 21. S Psalms 142:4; Isaiah 51:18; Jeremiah 10:20
  • 22. S Genesis 15:2
  • 23. S Isaiah 11:10
  • 24. S Isaiah 11:12; S Isaiah 14:2
  • 25. Luke 15:5; Isaiah 60:4
  • 26. Isa 60:3,10-11
  • 27. S Numbers 11:12; S Isaiah 60:16
  • 28. S Genesis 27:29; Revelation 3:9
  • 29. S Genesis 3:14; Psalms 72:9
  • 30. S Exodus 6:2; S Ps 22:23; S Isaiah 42:8; Micah 7:17
  • 31. S Psalms 37:9; S Psalms 130:5
  • 32. S Psalms 22:5; S Isaiah 29:22; S Isaiah 41:11
  • 33. Matthew 12:29; Mark 3:27; Luke 11:21
  • 34. S Isaiah 14:2
  • 35. Jeremiah 50:33-34; Mark 3:27
  • 36. S Isaiah 13:11; S Isaiah 25:4
  • 37. Isaiah 25:5; S Isaiah 43:26; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 50:34
  • 38. S 1 Samuel 24:15
  • 39. Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 33:22; Isaiah 35:4
  • 40. S Isaiah 9:4; S Isaiah 13:11
  • 41. S Isaiah 9:20
  • 42. Numbers 23:24; Jeremiah 25:27; Nahum 1:10; Nahum 3:11; Revelation 16:6
  • 43. Exodus 6:7; S Isaiah 11:9; Ezekiel 39:7
  • 44. S Isaiah 25:9
  • 45. S Job 19:25; S Isaiah 48:17
  • 46. S Genesis 49:24; S Psalms 132:2

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text "righteous"
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