So it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of Adonai may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Adonai has brought you out of Egypt.
Isaiah 49:16 - Tree of Life Version Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are continually before Me. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Common English Bible Look, on my palms I’ve inscribed you; your walls are before me continually. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, I have engraved you on my hands. Your walls are always before my eyes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes. |
So it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of Adonai may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Adonai has brought you out of Egypt.
Set me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as Sheol. Its flames are bolts of fire, the flame of Adonai.
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. He appoints salvation as its walls and ramparts.
make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones.
No more will violence be heard in your land, devastation nor destruction within your borders. But you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
On your walls, Jerusalem, I have set watchmen. All day and all night, they will never hold their peace. “You who remind Adonai, take no rest for yourselves,
And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
“As I live,” declares Adonai, “even if Coniah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off,
“On that day’”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant’—it is a declaration of Adonai—“‘and I will set you like a signet ring. For I have chosen you.’” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.