Isaiah:49:14-26
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But Zion said ,
The LORD hath forsaken me ,
and my Lord hath forgotten me .
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Can a woman forget her sucking child ,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ?
yea ,
they may forget ,
yet will I not forget thee .
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Behold ,
I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ;
thy walls are continually before me .
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Thy children shall make haste ;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee .
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Lift up thine eyes round about ,
and behold :
all these gather themselves together ,
and come to thee .
As I live ,
saith the LORD ,
thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all ,
as with an ornament ,
and bind them on thee ,
as a bride doeth .
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For thy waste and thy desolate places ,
and the land of thy destruction ,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants ,
and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away .
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The children which thou shalt have ,
after thou hast lost the other ,
shall say again in thine ears ,
The place is too strait for me :
give place to me that I may dwell .
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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 ?
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ,
Behold ,
I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles ,
and set up my standard to the people :
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms ,
and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders .
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And kings shall be thy nursing fathers ,
and their queens thy nursing mothers :
they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth ,
and lick up the dust of thy feet ;
and thou shalt know that I am the LORD :
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me .
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Shall the prey be taken from the mighty ,
or the lawful captive delivered ?
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But thus saith the LORD ,
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away ,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered :
for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee ,
and I will save thy children .
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And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ;
and they shall be drunken with their own blood ,
as with sweet wine :
and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer ,
the mighty One of Jacob Ya #
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