Isaiah 49:18

Conservative English Version

Look around! You will see your people coming home. As surely as I live, I, the LORD, promise that your city with its people will be as lovely as a bride wearing her jewelry."

Cross References

Genesis 13:14

After Abram and Lot had gone their separate ways, the LORD said to Abram: Look around to the north, south, east, and west.

Genesis 22:16

You were willing to offer the LORD your only son, and so he makes you this solemn promise,

Proverbs 17:6

Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, and children should be proud of their parents.

Isaiah 45:23

I have made a solemn promise, one that won't be broken: Everyone will bow down and worship me.

Isaiah 49:12

Then my people will return from distant lands in the north and the west and from the city of Syene.

Isaiah 49:22

The LORD God says: "I will soon give a signal for the nations to return your sons and your daughters to the arms of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:1

Jerusalem, wake up! Stand up and be strong. Holy city of Zion, dress in your best clothes. Those foreigners who ruined your sacred city won't bother you again.

Isaiah 54:7

I rejected you for a while, but with love and tenderness I will embrace you again.

Isaiah 54:9

I once promised Noah that I would never again destroy the earth by a flood. Now I have promised that I will never again get angry and punish you.

Isaiah 61:10

I celebrate and shout because of my LORD God. His saving power and justice are the very clothes I wear. They are more beautiful than the jewelry worn by a bride or a groom.

Isaiah 66:20

They will bring your relatives from the nations as an offering to me, the LORD. They will come on horses, chariots, wagons, mules, and camels to Jerusalem, my holy mountain. It will be like the people of Israel bringing the right offering to my temple.

Jeremiah 2:32

A bride could not forget to wear her jewelry to her wedding, but you have forgotten me day after day.

Jeremiah 31:8

I, the LORD, will bring my people back from Babylonia and everywhere else on earth. The blind and the lame will be there. Expectant mothers and women about to give birth will come and be part of that great crowd.

Jeremiah 43:12

I will have him set Egypt's temples on fire, and he will either burn or carry off their idols. He will destroy the sacred monuments at the temple of the sun-god. Then Nebuchadnezzar will pick the land clean, just like a shepherd picking the lice off his clothes. And he will return safely home.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

Numbers 14:21

But as surely as I live and my power has no limit,

John 4:35

You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.

Revelation 21:2

Then I saw New Jerusalem, that holy city, coming down from God in heaven. It was like a bride dressed in her wedding gown and ready to meet her husband.

Revelation 22:15

But outside the city will be dogs, witches, immoral people, murderers, idol worshipers, and everyone who loves to tell lies and do wrong.