Isaiah 49:14-21
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh Remembers Zion
14 But[a] Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me!”
15 Can a woman forget her suckling,
refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb?
Indeed, these may forget,
but[b] I, I will not forget you!
16 Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children hasten;
your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart[c] from you.
18 Lift your eyes up all around and see;
all of them gather; they come to you.
As surely as I live,[d]
declares[e] Yahweh,
surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament,
and you shall bind them on like a bride.
19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins,[f]
surely now you will be too cramped for your[g] inhabitants,[h]
and those who engulfed you will be far away.
20 Yet the children born when you were bereaved[i] will say in your hearing,[j]
“The place is too cramped for me;
make room[k] for me so that I can dwell.”
21 Then[l] you will say in your heart,
“Who has borne me these?”
And, “I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and thrust away;
so[m] who raised these?
Look at me! I was left alone;
where have these come from?”[n]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:14 Or “And”
- Isaiah 49:15 Or “and”
- Isaiah 49:17 Or “move away”
- Isaiah 49:18 Literally “Life I”
- Isaiah 49:18 Literally “declaration of”
- Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “ruin”
- Isaiah 49:19 Literally “cramped by”
- Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “inhabitant”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “of your bereavement”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “ears”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “approach”
- Isaiah 49:21 Or “And”
- Isaiah 49:21 Or “and”
- Isaiah 49:21 Literally “these where they”
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