New American Standard Bible 2020
Isaiah 49:14-21
14But 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 1I will not forget you.16Behold, I have 2inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your 3walls are continually before Me.17Your 4builders hurry; Your 5destroyers and devastators Will leave you.186Raise your eyes and look around; 7All of them gather together, 8they come to you. 9As I live,” declares the Lord, “You will certainly 10put them all on as 11jewelry and bind them on as a bride.19For 12your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land-- Now you will certainly be 13too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who 14swallowed you will be far away.20The 15children 16you lost 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 17say in your heart, ‘Who has fathered these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And 18cannot conceive, and I am an 19exile, and a wanderer? And who has raised these? Behold, I was 20left alone; 2122Where are these from?’”
Notes
- 1. Isaiah 49:15 Is 44:21 ↩
- 2. Isaiah 49:16 Song 8:6; Hag 2:23 ↩
- 3. Isaiah 49:16 Ps 48:12, 13; Is 62:6, 7 ↩
- 4. Isaiah 49:17 Ancient versions and DSS; MT sons ↩
- 5. Isaiah 49:17 Is 10:6; 37:18 ↩
- 6. Isaiah 49:18 Is 60:4; John 4:35 ↩
- 7. Isaiah 49:18 Is 43:5; 54:7; 60:4 ↩
- 8. Isaiah 49:18 Is 49:12 ↩
- 9. Isaiah 49:18 Is 45:23; 54:9 ↩
- 10. Isaiah 49:18 Is 52:1; 61:10 ↩
- 11. Isaiah 49:18 Lit an ornament ↩
- 12. Isaiah 49:19 Is 1:7; 3:8; 5:6; 51:3 ↩
- 13. Isaiah 49:19 Is 54:1, 2; Zech 10:10 ↩
- 14. Isaiah 49:19 Ps 56:1, 2 ↩
- 15. Isaiah 49:20 Is 54:1-3 ↩
- 16. Isaiah 49:20 Lit of your bereavement ↩
- 17. Isaiah 49:21 Is 29:23; 54:6, 7 ↩
- 18. Isaiah 49:21 Is 27:10; Lam 1:1 ↩
- 19. Isaiah 49:21 Is 5:13 ↩
- 20. Isaiah 49:21 Is 1:8 ↩
- 21. Isaiah 49:21 Lit These, where are they? ↩
- 22. Isaiah 49:21 Is 60:8 ↩
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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