Isaiah 49:22

This is what Yahweh our God says: “Watch! It is as though I will lift up my hand to signal to those who are not Israelis. And they will carry your little sons and daughters on their shoulders and bring them back to you.

Translation for Translators

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 you will think to yourselves [MTY], ‘It is amazing that we have [RHQ] all these children! Most of our children were dead, and the rest were exiled. We were left here alone; so we do not know [RHQ] where all these children have come from! Who raised them?'”

23Kings will serve you and will tutor/teach your children, and their queens will take care of your young children. They will prostrate themselves in front of you and humble themselves by licking the dust off your feet. When that happens, you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do; and those who trust in me will never be disappointed.”

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Cross References

Psalms 22:27I pray that people in all nations, even in the remote areas, will think about Yahweh and turn to him, and that people from all the clans in the world will bow down before him.

Psalms 72:8I hope/desire that the kings of Israel will rule the people in all the area from one sea in the east to another in the west, and from the Euphrates River to the most remote/distant places on earth.

Psalms 86:9Lord, some day, people from all the nations that you have established will come and bow down in front of you and they will praise you [MTY].

Isaiah 11:10At that time, a descendant of King David will hold up a flag to signal to the people of all people-groups that they should gather around him; they will come to him to get his advice, and the place where he lives will be glorious.

Isaiah 14:2People of other nations will help them to return to their own land, and those who come from other countries will ◄work for/become the servants of► the Israeli people. Those who captured people of Israel will be captured by Israeli soldiers, and the people of Israel will rule over the people who previously oppressed them.

Isaiah 49:12My people will return from far away; some will come from the north, some from the west, some from southern Egypt.”

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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