OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Isaiah 49:16

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

Your walls are continually before me.

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Isaiah 49:16 in context

Isaiah 49:13–19

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.”

15

“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
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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.

19

“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,

and your land that has been destroyed,

surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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