Isaiah 49:21

New English Translation

Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

Isaiah 29:23

For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, they will honor my name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; they will respect the God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Isaiah 60:15

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

Isaiah 62:4

You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,” and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.” Indeed, you will be called “My Delight is in Her,” and your land “Married.” For the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.

Isaiah 64:10

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Galatians 3:29

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.