Isaiah 49:14-21
New American Standard Bible
Promise to Zion
14 But Zion said, “The Lord has abandoned me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but (A)I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have (B)inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your (C)walls are continually before Me.
17 Your [a]builders hurry;
Your (D)destroyers and devastators
Will leave you.
18 (E)Raise your eyes and look around;
(F)All of them gather together, (G)they come to you.
(H)As I live,” declares the Lord,
“You will certainly (I)put them all on as [b]jewelry and bind them on as a bride.
19 For (J)your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land—
Now you will certainly be (K)too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who (L)swallowed you will be far away.
20 The (M)children [c]you lost will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’
21 Then you will (N)say in your heart,
‘Who has fathered these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And (O)cannot conceive, and I am an (P)exile, and a wanderer?
And who has raised these?
Behold, I was (Q)left alone;
[d](R)Where are these from?’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:17 Ancient versions and DSS; MT sons
- Isaiah 49:18 Lit an ornament
- Isaiah 49:20 Lit of your bereavement
- Isaiah 49:21 Lit These, where are they?
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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