Isaiah 49:21

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Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say within yourself,
‘Who fathered these for me?
I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,
exiled and wandering—
but who brought them up?
See, I was left by myself—
but these, where did they come from?’”

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is abandoned
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.

Isaiah 3:26

Then her gates will lament and mourn;
deserted, she will sit on the ground.

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Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people will go into exile
because they lack knowledge;
her dignitaries are starving,
and her masses are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 51:17-20

Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.

Isaiah 52:2

Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.”

Isaiah 54:3-8

For you will spread out to the right and to the left,
and your descendants will dispossess nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.

Isaiah 60:15

Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 62:4

You will no longer be called Deserted,
and your land will not be called Desolate;
instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land will be married.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 31:15-17

This is what the Lord says:

A voice was heard in Ramah,
a lament with bitter weeping—
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children
because they are no more.

Lamentations 1:1-3

How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.

Matthew 24:29-30

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Romans 11:11-17

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

Romans 11:26-31

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

Galatians 3:29

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.

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Galatians 4:26-29

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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Summary

Isaiah 49:21

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

Seeing

Am desolate

General references

Isaiah 27:6

Zephaniah 3:10

Bible References

Seeing

This is what the Lord says:

A voice was heard in Ramah,
a lament with bitter weeping—
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children
because they are no more.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.

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But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Am desolate

Then her gates will lament and mourn;
deserted, she will sit on the ground.

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Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.”

For you will spread out to the right and to the left,
and your descendants will dispossess nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.

Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.

You will no longer be called Deserted,
and your land will not be called Desolate;
instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,
and your land Married;

for the Lord delights in you,
and your land will be married.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles

until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

General references

In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.

From beyond the rivers of Cush
My supplicants, My dispersed people,
will bring an offering to Me.