Verse 18
Isaiah 49:18
Literal Standard Version
18
Lift up your eyes, look around and see, || All of them have been gathered, || They have come to you. As I live,” a declaration of YHWH! “Surely you put on all of them as an ornament, || And you bind them on like a bride.
Original Language Text
hebrew
שְׂאִֽי סָבִ֤יב עֵינַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ וּ/רְאִ֔י כֻּלָּ֖/ם נִקְבְּצ֣וּ בָֽאוּ לָ֑/ךְ חַי אָ֣נִי נְאֻם יְהוָ֗ה כִּ֤י כֻלָּ/ם֙ כָּ/עֲדִ֣י תִלְבָּ֔שִׁי וּֽ/תְקַשְּׁרִ֖י/ם כַּ/כַּלָּֽה
English Translation
Lift your eyes all around and see; they all gather and come to you. As surely as I live, declares the Lord, you will wear them all like a necklace, and you will bind them on like a bride.
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Chapter 49 Context
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3
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And He says, “It has been a light thing || That You are My Servant || To raise up the tribes of Jaco...
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Thus said YHWH, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, || To the despised in soul, || To the detested of...
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Thus said YHWH: “In a time of good pleasure I answered You, || And in a day of salvation I helped Yo...
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10
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And I have made all My mountains for a way, || And My highways are lifted up.
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12
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13
Sing, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth, || And break forth, O mountains, with singing, || For YHWH ha...
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14
And Zion says, “YHWH has forsaken me, || And my Lord has forgotten me.”
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15
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Behold, I have carved you on the palms of the hand, || Your walls are continually before Me.
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Those building you have hurried, || Those destroying you, and laying you waste, go out from you.
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18
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And you have said in your heart: Who has begotten these for me? And I am bereaved and barren, || A c...
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22
Thus said Lord YHWH: “Behold, I lift up My hand to nations, || And I raise up My ensign to peoples,...
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And kings have been your nursing fathers, || And their princesses—your nursing mothers; Face to the...
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Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?
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For thus said YHWH: “Even the captive of the mighty is taken, || And the prey of the terrible is del...
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