mkjv - Isaiah:49:8-26

mkjv@Isaiah:49:8 @ So says the LORD, in a favorable time I replied to You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You; and I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause them to inherit the wasted inheritances;

mkjv@Isaiah:49:9 @ that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who [are] in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall not hunger nor thirst; nor shall the heat nor sun strike them; for He who has mercy on them shall lead them; even by the springs of water He shall guide them.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make all My mountains a way, and My highways shall be set on high.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break out [into] singing, O mountains; for the Lord has comforted His people, and will have mercy on His afflicted.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:15 @ Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, I have carved you on the palms of [My] hands; your walls [are] forever before Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:17 @ Your sons shall make haste; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather [and] come to you. [As] I live, says the LORD, you shall surely wear them as an ornament, and bind them [on] as a bride.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:19 @ For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins, shall even now be too narrow to dwell there, and they who swallowed you up shall be far away.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place [is] too narrow for me; come near to me so that I may dwell.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne me these, since I [am] bereaved, and desolate, turned aside and an exile, and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [were] they?

mkjv@Isaiah:49:22 @ So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and have set up My banner to the people; and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on [their] shoulders.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow to you, faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD; by whom they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

mkjv@Isaiah:49:25 @ But so says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the fearful ones shall escape. For I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your sons.

mkjv@Isaiah:49:26 @ And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah [am] your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.