Isaiah 49:8-16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will answer you in a time of favour,
and I will help you in the day of salvation.^(A)
I will keep you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people,^(B)
to restore the land,
to make them possess the desolate inheritances,
⁹ saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’^(C)
and to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.^(D)
10 They will not hunger or thirst,
the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;
for their compassionate one will guide them,
and lead them to springs.^(E)
11 I will make all my mountains into a pathway,
and my roads will be raised up.^(F)
12 See, these will come from far away,
from the north and from the west,^[a](G)
and from the land of Sinim.^[b][c]

¹⁴ Zion says, ‘The Lord has abandoned me;
the Lord has forgotten me! ’
¹⁵ ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
¹⁶ Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;^(K)
your walls are continually before me.