His Eye Is on Zion, the place most on God’s heart, the nation He founded and nourished for thousands of years.
Isaiah 49:14. But Zion said, the LORD* has forsaken me and my Lord has forgotten me. 15. Can a woman forget her nursing child, so she would not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I AM will not forget you. 16. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me. 17. Your children will make haste. Your destroyers and those who made you ruins will leave from you. 18. Lift up your eyes all around and see: all these gather themselves together and come to you. As I AM lives, says the LORD*, you will surely clothe yourself with them all, as with an ornament and bind them on you, like a bride does. 19. For your ruins and your desolate places and the land of your destruction will even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants and your destroyers will be far away. 20. The children that you have lost will say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give me a place so I can live. 21. Then you will say in your heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children and am desolate, a captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone. Where had these been?
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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