Isaiah 49:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD answered, “Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came from her own body? Even if a mother could forget, I will never forget you.

Cross References

Job 24:20

Forgotten here on earth, and with their power broken, they taste sweet to worms.

Psalm 103:13

Just as parents are kind to their children, the LORD is kind to all who worship him,

Psalm 27:10

Even if my father and mother should desert me, you will take care of me.

Psalm 77:9

Have you forgotten how to have pity? Do you refuse to show mercy because of your anger?”

Proverbs 31:2

My son Lemuel, you were born in answer to my prayers, so listen carefully.

Isaiah 14:1

The LORD will have mercy on Israel and will let them be his chosen people once again. He will bring them back to their own land, and foreigners will join them as part of Israel.

Isaiah 44:21

People of Israel, you are my servant, so remember all of this. Israel, I created you, and you are my servant. I won't forget you.

Isaiah 49:14

The people of Zion said, “The LORD has turned away and forgotten us.”

Isaiah 54:10

Every mountain and hill may disappear. But I will always be kind and merciful to you; I won't break my agreement to give your nation peace.

Jeremiah 31:20

People of Israel, you are my own dear children. Don't I love you best of all? Though I often make threats, I want you to be near me, so I will have mercy on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 51:5

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the LORD All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals nurse their young, but my people are like ostriches that abandon their own.

Hosea 11:1

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

Leviticus 26:29

In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

Malachi 3:17

Then the LORD All-Powerful said: You people are precious to me, and when I come to bring justice, I will protect you, just as parents protect an obedient child.

Matthew 7:11

As bad as you are, you still know how to give good gifts to your children. But your heavenly Father is even more ready to give good things to people who ask.

Romans 1:31

They are stupid, unreliable, and don't have any love or pity for others.

1 Samuel 12:22

But the LORD has chosen you to be his own people. He will always take care of you so that everyone will know how great he is.