Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have carved you on the palms of the hand, || Your walls [are] continually before Me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
In Context
17Those building you have hurried, || Those destroying you, and laying you waste, go out from you.
Cross References
Psalms 48:12Surround Zion, and go around her, count her towers,
Isaiah 26:1In that day this song is sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, || He makes salvation [for] walls and bulwark.
Isaiah 60:18Violence is not heard in your land anymore, || Spoiling and destruction in your borders, || And you have called your walls Salvation, || And your gates Praise.
Jeremiah 22:24“[As] I live,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah was a seal on My right hand, surely there I draw you away,
Revelation 21:10and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:14-18
Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually… Read the whole commentary →