Isaiah 49:17

Soon your children will be returning there (OR, Those who rebuild your city will work more quickly than those who destroyed it), and all those who destroyed your city will leave.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

In Context

16Note that I have written your names on the palms of my hands; in my mind I can always see the walls of your city.

18You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you for you to show to people like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!

Read all of Isaiah 49

Cross References

Nehemiah 2:4The king replied, “What do you want me to do for you?” I prayed silently to our God who is/rules in heaven.

Isaiah 10:6Sometimes I send the armies of Assyria to attack a godless nation, to fight against other people who have caused me to be angry. I send them to capture people and to seize and take away their possessions, and to trample them like [SIM] people walk on mud in the streets.

Isaiah 51:13◄Why have you/You should not have► [RHQ] forgotten me, Yahweh, the one who created your nation, the one who stretched out the sky and laid the foundations of the earth. ◄Why are you/You should not be► [RHQ] continually afraid of those who are angry with you and ◄oppress you/treat you cruelly► and want to get rid of you. You should not be afraid of them now, because those angry people have now disappeared!

Isaiah 51:22Yahweh, your Lord and your God, the one who argues/pleads your case, says this: “Note this: It is as though [MET] I have taken that cup of bitter liquid from your hands; I will not be angry with you and cause you to suffer any more.

Isaiah 62:5You people will live in all the country of Judah like [SIM] a young man lives with his bride. And our God will be happy that you belong to him like [SIM] a bridegroom is happy that his bride belongs to him.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Isaiah 49:17