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Isaiah 49:17

15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

19 For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
KJV
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
WEB
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
ASV
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
DARBY
Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.
BLB
Your builders are hurrying; those overthrowing you and those destroying you will go out from you.
ÅB
Dine barn kommer i hast; de som brøt deg ned og ødela deg, de skal dra bort fra deg.
OTB
Dine barn skynder seg tilbake, og de som la deg øde skal dra bort fra deg.
B1930
Dine barn kommer i hast; de som brøt dig ned og ødela dig, de skal dra bort fra dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 51:13

    But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

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  • Isaiah 62:5

    For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

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  • Isaiah 51:22–23

    Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

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  • Ezekiel 28:24

    For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

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  • Isaiah 51:18–20

    Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

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  • Isaiah 49:19

    For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

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  • Isaiah 10:6

    I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

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  • Ezra 1:5

    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

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