Isaiah 49:21

Modern English Version

Then you shall say in your heart, “Who bore these for me, since I have lost my children and am barren, a captive and a wanderer? And who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone; from where have these come?”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city shall be desolate, a homestead forlorn and forsaken like a wilderness; there the calf shall graze, and there it shall lie down and eat its branches.

Isaiah 29:23

but when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall sanctify My name and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people go into captivity because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; arise, O captive Jerusalem. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 60:15

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these who fly as a cloud and as the doves to their roosts?

Isaiah 62:4

You shall no more be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is In Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led away captive to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Galatians 3:29

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.