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Text -- Isaiah 49:14-26 (NET)
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The Lord Remembers Zion
49:14 “Zion said , ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
49:15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast ? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne ? Even if mothers were to forget , I could never forget you!
49:16 Look , I have inscribed your name on my palms ; your walls are constantly before me.
49:17 Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart .
49:18 Look all around you ! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live ,” says the Lord , “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry ; you will put them on as if you were a bride .
49:19 Yes , your land lies in ruins ; it is desolate and devastated . But now you will be too small to hold your residents , and those who devoured you will be far away .
49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing , ‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’
49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren , dismissed and divorced . Who raised these children? Look , I was left all alone ; where did these children come from?’”
49:22 This is what the sovereign Lord says : “Look I will raise my hand to the nations ; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples . They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders .
49:23 Kings will be your children’s guardians ; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet . Then you will recognize that I am the Lord ; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame .
49:24 Can spoils be taken from a warrior , or captives be rescued from a conqueror ?
49:25 Indeed ,” says the Lord , “captives will be taken from a warrior ; spoils will be rescued from a conqueror . I will oppose your adversary and I will rescue your children .
49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh ; they will get drunk on their own blood , as if it were wine . Then all humankind will recognize that I am the Lord , your deliverer , your protector , the powerful ruler of Jacob .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Church |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
ISAIAH, BOOK OF |
Jesus, The Christ |
Isaiah |
Isaiah, The Book of |
Israel |
God |
Gentiles |
Bride |
PREY |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
Marriage |
Doubting |
WINE; WINE PRESS |
CHILDREN |
STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY |
SHOULDER |
Waiting |
Standard |
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NET Notes: Isa 49:15 The argument of v. 15 seems to develop as follows: The Lord has an innate attachment to Zion, just like a mother does for her infant child. But even i...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:19 Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew te...
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NET Notes: Isa 49:24 The Hebrew text has צָדִיק (tsadiq, “a righteous [one]”), but this makes no sense in the parallelism. ...
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