OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 15

Isaiah 49:15

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“Can a woman forget her nursing child,

that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Yes, these may forget,

yet I will not forget you!

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Isaiah 49:12–18

12

Behold, these shall come from afar,

and behold, these from the north and from the west,

and these from the land of Sinim.”

13

Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!

Break out into singing, mountains!

For the LORD has comforted his people,

and will have compassion on his afflicted.

14

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,

and the Lord has forgotten me.”

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“Can a woman forget her nursing child,

that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Yes, these may forget,

yet I will not forget you!

16

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Your walls are continually before me.

17

Your children hurry.

Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

18

Lift up your eyes all around, and see:

all these gather themselves together, and come to you.

As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,

and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

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