Isaiah 49:22

This is what the Lord Yahweh says, 1 “Look, I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. 1 They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 1

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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 ask yourself, 'Who has borne these children for me? 1 I was bereaved and barren, exiled and divorced. Who has raised these children? 1 Look, I was left all alone; where did these come from?'” 1

23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursemaids; 1 they will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet; 1 and you will know that I am Yahweh; those who wait for me will not be put to shame.” 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:27All the peoples of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh; 1 all the families of the nations will bow down before you. 1

Psalms 72:8May he have dominion from sea to sea, 1 and from the River to the ends of the earth. 1

Psalms 86:9All the nations that you have made will come and bow before you, Lord. 1 They will honor your name. 1

Isaiah 11:10On that day, the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. 1 The nations will seek him out, and his resting place will be glorious. 1

Isaiah 14:2The nations will bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will take them in the land of Yahweh as male and female servants. They will take captive those who had captured them, and they will rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 49:12Look, these will come from far away, some from the north and the west; and others from the land of Sinim. 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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