New American Standard Bible 1995
Isaiah 49:17-23
17Your 1builders hurry; Your 2destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.183Lift up your eyes and look around; 4All of them gather together, 5they come to you. 6As I live,” declares the Lord, “You will surely 7put on all of them as 8jewels and bind them on as a bride.19For 9your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land-- Surely now you will be 10too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who 11swallowed you will be far away.20The 12children of 13whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’21Then you will 14say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am 15barren, an 16exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was 17left alone; 1819From where did these come?’”
22Thus says the Lord 20God, “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My 21standard to the peoples; And they will 22bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.2323Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will 24bow down to you with their faces to the earth And 25lick the dust of your feet; And you will 26know that I am the Lord; Those who hopefully 27wait for Me will 28not be put to shame.
Notes
- 1. Isaiah 49:17 So ancient versions and DSS; M.T. reads sons ↩
- 2. Isaiah 49:17 Is 10:6; 37:18 ↩
- 3. Isaiah 49:18 Is 60:4; John 4:35 ↩
- 4. Isaiah 49:18 Is 43:5; 54:7; 60:4 ↩
- 5. Isaiah 49:18 Is 49:12 ↩
- 6. Isaiah 49:18 Is 45:23; 54:9 ↩
- 7. Isaiah 49:18 Is 52:1; 61:10 ↩
- 8. Isaiah 49:18 Lit an ornament ↩
- 9. Isaiah 49:19 Is 1:7; 3:8; 5:6; 51:3 ↩
- 10. Isaiah 49:19 Is 54:1, 2; Zech 10:10 ↩
- 11. Isaiah 49:19 Ps 56:1, 2 ↩
- 12. Isaiah 49:20 Is 54:1-3 ↩
- 13. Isaiah 49:20 Lit your bereavement ↩
- 14. Isaiah 49:21 Is 29:23; 54:6, 7 ↩
- 15. Isaiah 49:21 Is 27:10; Lam 1:1 ↩
- 16. Isaiah 49:21 Is 5:13 ↩
- 17. Isaiah 49:21 Is 1:8 ↩
- 18. Isaiah 49:21 Lit These, where are they? ↩
- 19. Isaiah 49:21 Is 60:8 ↩
- 20. Isaiah 49:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
- 21. Isaiah 49:22 Is 11:10, 12; 18:3; 62:10 ↩
- 22. Isaiah 49:22 Is 14:2; 43:6; 60:4 ↩
- 23. Isaiah 49:23 Is 14:1, 2; 60:3, 10, 11 ↩
- 24. Isaiah 49:23 Is 45:14; 60:14 ↩
- 25. Isaiah 49:23 Ps 72:9; Mic 7:17 ↩
- 26. Isaiah 49:23 Is 41:20; 43:10; 60:16 ↩
- 27. Isaiah 49:23 Ps 37:9; Is 25:9; 26:8 ↩
- 28. Isaiah 49:23 Ps 25:3; Is 45:17; Joel 2:27 ↩
Commentaries on Isaiah 49
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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