Isaiah 49:21

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Summary

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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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.

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.