Isaiah 49:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and Jerusalem will ask, “Am I really their mother? How could I have given birth when I was still mourning in a foreign land? Who raised these children? Where have they come from?”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

Isaiah 27:10

Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare.

Isaiah 29:23

When they see how great I have made their nation, they will praise and honour me, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:26

The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.

Isaiah 5:13

and so his people know nothing about him. That's why many of you will be dragged off to foreign lands. Your leaders will starve to death, and everyone else will suffer from thirst.

Isaiah 52:2

Zion, rise from the dust! Free yourself from the rope around your neck.

Isaiah 60:15

You were hated and deserted, rejected by everyone. But I will make you beautiful, a city to be proud of for all time to come.

Isaiah 60:8

What is that sailing by like clouds or like doves flying home?

Isaiah 62:4

Your name will no longer be “Deserted and Childless”, but “Happily Married”. You will please the LORD; your country will be his bride.

Isaiah 64:10

Every one of your towns has turned into a desert, especially Jerusalem.

Luke 21:24

Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end.

Romans 11:24

After all, it wasn't natural for branches to be cut from a wild olive tree and to be made part of a cultivated olive tree. So it is much more likely that God will join the natural branches back to the cultivated olive tree.

Galatians 3:29

So if you belong to Christ, you are now part of Abraham's family, and you will be given what God has promised.