Isaiah 49:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are continually before Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Look, on my palms I’ve inscribed you; your walls are before me continually.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you on my hands. Your walls are always before my eyes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

Isaiah 49:16 Cross References

Exodus 13:9

And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

Isaiah 26:1

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.

Isaiah 54:12

I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones.

Isaiah 60:18

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

Isaiah 62:6

Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,

Isaiah 62:7

and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

Jeremiah 22:24

“As I live, says the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

Haggai 2:23

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of She-alti-el, says the Lord, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the Lord of hosts.”