Isaiah 49:22

Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: 1 Hinei, I will lift up Mine Yad to the Goyim, 1 and set up My nes (banner, rallying flag) + 49:22 i.e., Moshiach; see Isa 11:10 to the Nations; 1 and they shall bring thy banim in their arms, 1 and thy banot shall be carried upon their shoulders. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

In Context

21Then shalt thou say in thine lev: 1 Who hath begotten me these, 1 seeing I am shekhulah (bereaved) of my children, and am galmudah (barren, incapable of having children), 1 a captive of the Golus, and thrust away as rejected? 1 So who has reared these? 1 Behold I was left a lone survivor; 1 these, where were they? Where did they come from? 1

23And melachim shall be thy omenim (foster fathers, supporters, nurturers), 1 and their sarot thy wet nurses; 1 they shall bow down before thee with their face toward eretz, 1 and lick the aphar of thy raglayim; 1 and thou shalt know that I am Hashem; 1 for they shall not be put to shame that wait for Me. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:27The anavim (meek) shall eat and be satisfied; 1 they that seek Him shall praise Hashem. 1 Let your levav live forever! 1

Psalms 72:8He + 72:8 Moshiach Ben Dovid shall have dominion also from yam to yam, 1 and from nahar (Euphrates river) unto the afsei eretz (the ends of the earth). 1

Psalms 86:9Kol Goyim whom Thou hast made 1 shall come and worship before Thee, Adonoi; 1 and shall glorify Shimcha. 1

Isaiah 11:10And in Yom HaHu there shall be a Shoresh Yishai, which shall stand for a nes (banner) for the peoples; to Him + 11:10 Moshiach will the Goyim seek; and His menucha (resting place) shall be kavod.

Isaiah 14:2And the nations shall take them, and bring them to their makom (place, home); and Bais Yisroel shall possess them as an inheritance in the Admat Hashem (Land of Hashem ) for avadim and shifchot; and they shall take their captors captive; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 49:12Hinei, these shall come from afar; 1 and, hinei, these from the tzafon and from the yam; 1 and these from Eretz Sinim. + 49:12 Sinites 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:19-24

Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost… Read the whole commentary →

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