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Isaiah 49

Isa. 49:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then shalt thou say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
in thine heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
, Who hath begotten
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
me these, seeing I have lost my children
shakol (Hebrew #7921)
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, X expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-kole'
Origin: a primitive root
, and am desolate
galmuwd (Hebrew #1565)
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate
KJV usage: desolate, solitary.
Pronounce: gal-mood'
Origin: probably by prolonged from 1563
, a captive
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
, and removing to and fro
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
? and who hath brought up
gadal (Hebrew #1431)
properly, to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
KJV usage: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to...estate, + things), grow(up),increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower.
Pronounce: gaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
these? Behold, I was left
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
alone; these, where
'eyphoh (Hebrew #375)
from 335 and 6311; what place?; also (of time) when?; or (of means) how?; --what manner, where.
Pronounce: ay-fo'
had they been?

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Cross References

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Jer. 31:15‑17• 15Thus saith Jehovah: A voice hath been heard in Ramah, the wail of very bitter weeping,--Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
 16Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
 17And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border. (Jer. 31:15‑17)
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Rom. 11:11‑17,24• 11I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.
 12But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?
 13For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
 14if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
 15For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?
 16Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.
 17Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
 24For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree? (Rom. 11:11‑17,24)
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Gal. 3:29• 29but if *ye* are of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. (Gal. 3:29)
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Gal. 4:26‑29• 26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
 27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her that has a husband.
 28But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.
 29But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was born according to Spirit, so also it is now. (Gal. 4:26‑29)
am desolate.
Isa. 3:26• 26and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground. (Isa. 3:26)
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Isa. 51:17‑20• 17Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:
 18--there is none to guide her among all the children that she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the hand of all the children that she hath brought up.
 19These two things are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee?--desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?
 20Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God. (Isa. 51:17‑20)
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Isa. 52:2• 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion. (Isa. 52:2)
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Isa. 54:3‑8• 3For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make desolate cities to be inhabited.
 4Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
 5For thy Maker is thy husband: Jehovah of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
 6For Jehovah hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as a wife of youth, that hath been refused, saith thy God.
 7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
 8In the outpouring of wrath have I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting loving-kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer. (Isa. 54:3‑8)
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Isa. 60:15• 15Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, so that no one went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy from generation to generation. (Isa. 60:15)
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Isa. 62:4• 4Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called, My delight is in her, and thy land, Married; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. (Isa. 62:4)
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Isa. 64:10• 10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (Isa. 64:10)
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Lam. 1:1‑3• 1How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the princess among the provinces is become tributary!
 2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
 3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits. (Lam. 1:1‑3)
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Matt. 24:29‑30• 29But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (Matt. 24:29‑30)
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Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
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Rom. 11:26‑31• 26and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
 27And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.
 28As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.
 29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.
 30For as indeed *ye* also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;
 31so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy. (Rom. 11:26‑31)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven abouta? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "wandering."