Isaiah 49:21

God's Word

Then you will ask yourself, “Who has fathered these ⌞children⌟ for me? I was childless and unable to have children. I was exiled and rejected. Who raised these ⌞children for me⌟? I was left alone. Where have they come from?”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

My people Zion are left like a hut in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.”

Isaiah 27:10

The fortified city is isolated. The homestead is left deserted, abandoned like the desert. Calves will graze there. They will lie down. They will feed on the branches.

Isaiah 29:23

When they see all their children, the children I made with my hands, they will acknowledge my name as holy. They will treat the Holy One of Jacob as holy. They will stand in terror of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:26

The gates of Zion will cry and grieve, and Zion will sit on the ground, exhausted.

Isaiah 5:13

“My people will go into exile because they don’t understand what I’m doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.”

Isaiah 52:2

Shake the dust from yourselves. Get up, captive Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains around your neck, captive people of Zion.

Isaiah 60:15

“You have been abandoned and hated; no one has passed through you. But now I will make you a source of everlasting pride, a joy for all generations.

Isaiah 60:8

“Who are these people that fly by like clouds, like doves to their nests?

Isaiah 62:4

You will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will no longer be called Destroyed. But you will be named My Delight, and your land will be named Married. The Lord is delighted with you, and your land will be married.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland.

Luke 21:24

Swords will cut them down, and they will be carried off into all nations as prisoners. Nations will trample Jerusalem until the times allowed for the nations ⌞to do this⌟ are over.

Romans 11:24

In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been grafted onto a cultivated one. So wouldn’t it be easier for these natural branches to be grafted onto the olive tree they belong to?

Galatians 3:29

If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants and heirs, as God promised.