Isaiah 49:17
Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go out of you.
Updated King James Version
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
16Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:4Then the king said unto me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 51:13And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51:22Thus says your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of yours hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
Isaiah 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
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 →