Isaiah 49:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away— so who has reared these? I was left all alone— where, then, have these come from?”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there; there they lie down and strip its branches.

Isaiah 29:23

For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; rise up, O captive Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Isaiah 60:15

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these that fly like a cloud and like doves to their windows?

Isaiah 62:4

You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more 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 have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

Romans 11:24

For if you have been cut 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 offspring, heirs according to the promise.