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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 the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
 16Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
 17And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that 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 that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
 12Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
 13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
 14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
 15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
 16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
 17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
 24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? (Rom. 11:11‑17,24)
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Gal. 3:29• 29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal. 3:29)
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Gal. 4:26‑29• 26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
 27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
 28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
 29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. (Gal. 4:26‑29)
am desolate.
Isa. 3:26• 26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. (Isa. 3:26)
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Isa. 51:17‑20• 17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
 18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
 19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
 20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. (Isa. 51:17‑20)
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Isa. 52:2• 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (Isa. 52:2)
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Isa. 54:3‑8• 3For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the 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 thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
 6For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
 7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
 8In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. (Isa. 54:3‑8)
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Isa. 60:15• 15Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. (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 Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. (Isa. 62:4)
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Isa. 64:10• 10Thy holy cities are 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! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
 2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: 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 heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. (Lam. 1:1‑3)
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Matt. 24:29‑30• 29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall 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 earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in 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 shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
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Rom. 11:26‑31• 26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
 27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
 28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
 29For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
 30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
 31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain 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."