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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 was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not.
 16Thus saith Jehovah; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
 17And there is hope in thine end, saith Jehovah, 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, Did they stumble that they should fall? Let it not be; but by their slip [there is] salvation to the Gentiles, in order to make them jealous.
 12But if their slip [be the] world's riches and their loss [the] Gentiles' riches, how much more their fullness?
 13For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
 14if by any means I may stir to jealousy my flesh and save some of them.
 15For if the rejection of them [be the] world's reconciliation, what their reception but life out of [the] dead?
 16But if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also; and if holy the root, the branches also.
 17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou being a wild olive wert grafted in among them and becamest a fellow-partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree,
 24For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature wert grafted into a good olive tree, how much more shall these that [are] natural be grafted 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, 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; for the children of the desolate are many more than of her that hath the husband.”
 28But we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
 29But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was according to Spirit, so now. (Gal. 4:26‑29)
am desolate.
Isa. 3:26• 26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she, stripped , 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 Jehovah the cup of his fury; thou hast drunk — hast drained out the bowl of the cup of staggering.
 18[There 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 befallen thee; who will bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword; how shall I comfort thee?
 20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the top of all the streets, as an antelope 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 thee 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 possess nations, and 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 a wife of youth, when rejected, saith thy God.
 7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
 8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting 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 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 Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; 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 a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (Isa. 64:10)
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Lam. 1:1‑3• 1{i}How{/i} {i}doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!{HR}She that was great among the nations is become as a widow;{HR}The princess among the provinces is become tributary!{/i}
 2{i}She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;{HR}Among all her lovers she hath no comforter;{HR}All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.{/i}
 3{i}Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude;{HR}She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest:{HR}All her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.{/i} (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 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 land mourn, 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 by [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, even as it is written, “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob.
 27And this [is] for them the covenant on my part, when I shall have taken away their sins.”
 28As to the gospel, [they are] enemies on your account, but as to the election beloved on account of the fathers;
 29for indefeasible are [the] gifts and the calling of God.
 30For as ye once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience,
 31so also these have now disobeyed your mercy, that they also may have mercy shown to themselves. (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."

W. Kelly Translation

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And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these (seeing I had lost my children, and was desolate, a captive, and driven to and fro)? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [were] they?