Isaiah 49:15

Easy To Read Version

\{But I say\},\par “Can a woman forget her baby? No!\par Can a woman forget the child\par that came from her body?\par No! A woman can’t forget her children.\par And I (the Lord) can’t forget you.\par

Cross References

Job 24:20

That evil person will die\par and even his own mother\par will forget him.\par His sweetheart will be the worms\par eating his body.\par People will not remember him.\par That evil person will be broken\par like a rotten stick!\par

Psalm 103:13

The Lord is as kind to his followers\par as a father is to his children.\par

Psalm 27:10

My mother and my father left me.\par But the Lord took me\par and made me his.\par

Psalm 77:9

Has God forgotten what mercy is?\par Has his compassion changed to anger?”\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [436]})\i0 \par

Proverbs 31:2

You are my son. The son that I love. You are the son that I prayed to have.

Isaiah 14:1

\{In the future,\} the Lord will again show his love to Jacob. The Lord will again choose the people of Israel. \{At that time,\} the Lord will give those people their land. Then non-Jewish people {\cf2\super [146]} will join themselves to the Jewish people. Both people will join and become one family—Jacob’s family.

Isaiah 44:21

“Jacob, remember these things!\par Israel, remember,\par you are my servant.\par I made you.\par You are my servant.\par So Israel, don’t forget me.\par

Isaiah 49:14

But now Zion {\cf2\super [415]} says,\par “The Lord left me.\par My Master forgot me.”\par

Isaiah 54:10

The Lord says,\par “The mountains may disappear,\par and the hills may become dust.\par But my kindness will never leave you.\par I will make peace with you,\par and it will never end.”\par The Lord shows mercy to you.\par And he is the One that said these things.\par

Jeremiah 31:20

\{God says,\}\par “You know that Ephraim {\cf2\super [255]} is my dear son.\par I love that child.\par Yes, I often criticized Ephraim,\par but I still think about him.\par I love him very much.\par And I really do want to comfort him.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 51:5

The Lord All-Powerful\par did not leave Israel and Judah alone,\par like a woman whose husband has died.\par God did not leave those people.\par No! Those people are guilty\par of leaving the Holy One of Israel.\par They left him,\par but he has not left them.\par

Lamentations 4:10

At that time, even very nice women\par cooked their own children.\par Those children became food\par for their mothers.\par This happened when my people\par were destroyed.\par

Lamentations 4:3

Even a wild dog feeds her babies.\par Even the jackal lets her pups suck\par at her breast.\par But the daughter of my people {\cf2\super [27]} is cruel.\par She is like the ostrich\par that lives in the desert.\par

Hosea 11:1

\{The Lord said,\}“I loved Israel when he was a child,\par and I called my son out of Egypt.\par

Leviticus 26:29

{You will become so hungry that} you will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Malachi 3:17

You have taught wrong things. And those wrong teachings made the Lord very sad. You taught that God likes people that do bad things. You said God thinks those people are good. And you taught that God does not punish people for doing bad things.

Matthew 7:11

\{You are not like God\}—you are evil. But you know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father will give good things to those people that ask him.

Romans 1:31

they are foolish, they don’t keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to other people.

1 Samuel 12:22

“But the Lord won’t leave his people. No, the Lord was pleased to make you his own people. So, for his own good name, he won’t leave you.