Isaiah 49:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ [And the Lord answered] Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her nursing child, fail to pity the child of her womb? Even these may forget, but I won’t forget you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Isaiah 49:15 Cross References

Job 24:20

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.

Psalm 103:13

As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him.

Psalm 27:10

If my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.

Psalm 77:9

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

Proverbs 31:2

No, my son! No, son of my womb! No, son of my vows!

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 44:21

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, do not forget me.

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.”

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he the child in whom I delight? As often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:5

Indeed, Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Malachi 3:17

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.

Matthew 7:11

If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Romans 1:31

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.