Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'"

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In The King James Version

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

In Context

20The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

22Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,like a hut in a field of melons,like a besieged city.

Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.Their honorable men are famished,and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 52:2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

Isaiah 60:15"Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Lamentations 1:1ALEPHHow the city sits solitary, that was full of people!She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations!She who was a princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer!BET

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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