These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 49
Tanakh 26 verses
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Listen, O isles, unto me, And hearken, ye peoples, from far: The hath called me from the womb, From the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my ;
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Jeremiah 1:5 Isaiah 44:2 Galatians 1:15 Isaiah 55:3 Isaiah 42:1-4 Luke 1:15 Luke 1:31 Isaiah 49:5 Isaiah 45:22 Zephaniah 2:11 Isaiah 60:9 Ephesians 2:17 Isaiah 66:19 Isaiah 46:3 Isaiah 44:24 John 10:36 Hebrews 12:25 Luke 2:10-11 Psalm 71:5-6 Isaiah 42:12 Isaiah 57:19 Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 41:1 Matthew 1:20-21 Isaiah 51:5 1 Peter 1:20 Isaiah 7:14 - 2 And He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand hath He hid me; And He hath made me a polished shaft, In His quiver hath He concealed me;
- 3 And He said unto me: ‘Thou art My , , in whom I will be glorified.’
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But I said: ‘I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; Yet surely my right is with , And my recompense with my .’
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And now saith That formed me from the womb to be His , To bring back to Him, And that be gathered unto Him—For I am honourable in the eyes of , And my is become my strength—
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1 Peter 3:22 Matthew 17:5 Matthew 28:18 Isaiah 12:2 Isaiah 43:4 Matthew 3:17 John 3:35 Acts 10:36 Matthew 21:37-41 Isaiah 52:13 Matthew 23:37 Romans 15:8 Isaiah 50:4 Matthew 15:24 Luke 19:42 Psalm 110:1-3 Isaiah 49:1 Isaiah 11:12 Matthew 11:27 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Ephesians 1:20-22 John 5:20-27 Isaiah 56:8 - 6 Yea, He saith: ‘It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be My To raise up the tribes of , And to restore the offspring of ; I will also give thee for a light of the nations, That My may be unto the end of the earth.’
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Thus saith , The Redeemer of , his Holy One, To him who is despised of men, To him who is abhorred of nations, To a of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, Princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; Because of that is faithful, Even the Holy One of , who hath chosen thee.
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Matthew 26:67 Isaiah 53:3 1 Peter 2:4 Isaiah 52:15 Psalm 22:6-8 Psalm 69:7-9 Matthew 20:28 Isaiah 48:17 Matthew 27:38-44 Luke 23:23 Isaiah 49:1 Luke 23:35 Isaiah 42:1 Isaiah 50:6 Psalm 72:10-11 John 19:15 Zechariah 11:8 Isaiah 49:23 Psalm 69:19 Revelation 11:15 Psalm 68:31 John 18:40 Isaiah 60:3 Isaiah 60:16 Isaiah 48:7 Revelation 3:7 Isaiah 60:10 Psalm 2:10-12 Luke 23:18 John 19:6 Luke 22:27 -
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Thus saith : In an acceptable time have I answered thee, And in a day of have I helped thee; And I will preserve thee, and give thee For a of the people, To raise up the land, To cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
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Saying to the prisoners: ‘Go forth’; To them that are in darkness: ‘Show yourselves’; They shall feed in the ways, And in all high hills shall be their pasture;
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Isaiah 42:7 Isaiah 61:1 Isaiah 42:16 Luke 4:18 Isaiah 41:18 Zechariah 9:11-12 Ezekiel 34:29 Ephesians 5:14 Ezekiel 34:13-15 John 8:12 Psalm 23:1-2 Isaiah 55:1-2 Psalm 107:10-16 1 Peter 2:9 Ezekiel 34:23 Psalm 102:20 John 6:53-58 Isaiah 9:2 Acts 26:18 Colossians 1:13 Psalm 146:7 Ephesians 5:8 Deuteronomy 32:13 Isaiah 65:13 Isaiah 5:17 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 Luke 1:79 John 10:9 Isaiah 60:1-2 Psalm 22:26 1 Thessalonians 5:5-6 Psalm 69:33 Joel 3:18 - 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them; For He that hath compassion on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water will He guide them.
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And I will make all My mountains a way, And My highways shall be raised on high.
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- 12 Behold, these shall come from far; And, lo, these from the north and from the west, And these from the land of Sinim.
- 13 Sing, O , and be joyful, O earth, And break forth into singing, O mountains; For hath comforted His people, And hath compassion upon His afflicted.
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But said: ‘The hath forsaken me, And hath forgotten me.’
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- 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, Yet will not I forget thee.
- 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; Thy walls are continually before Me.
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Thy children make haste; Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from 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 , Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, And gird thyself with them, like a bride.
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Isaiah 54:9 Isaiah 54:1-3 Isaiah 61:10 Isaiah 66:12-13 Isaiah 54:7 Isaiah 49:12 Genesis 22:16 Isaiah 60:4-11 Revelation 22:15 Proverbs 17:6 Jeremiah 31:8 Isaiah 43:5-6 Matthew 13:41-42 Genesis 13:14 Isaiah 45:23 Revelation 21:2 Isaiah 52:1 Isaiah 49:22 Hebrews 6:13-18 Galatians 3:28-29 Isaiah 66:20 Jeremiah 2:32 -
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For thy waste and thy desolate places And thy land that hath been destroyed—Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
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The children of thy bereavement Shall yet say in thine ears: ‘The place is too strait for me; Give place to me that I may dwell.’
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- 21 Then shalt thou say in thy : ‘Who hath begotten me these, Seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, An exile, and wandering to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; These, where were they?’
- 22 Thus saith : Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, And set up Mine ensign to the peoples, And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
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And kings shall be thy foster-fathers, And their queens thy nursing mothers; They shall bow down to thee with their to the earth, And lick the dust of thy feet; And thou shalt that I am , For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.
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Isaiah 60:16 Isaiah 60:3 Micah 7:17 Isaiah 60:14 Isaiah 45:14 Isaiah 60:10-11 Psalm 25:3 Genesis 43:26 Isaiah 25:9 Romans 10:11 Revelation 3:9 Psalm 34:22 Psalm 138:4 Esther 8:1-10 Romans 5:5 Psalm 68:31 Isaiah 52:15 1 Peter 2:6 Isaiah 62:2 Nehemiah 2:6-10 Romans 9:33 Ezra 1:2-4 Revelation 21:24-26 Psalm 69:6 Numbers 11:12 Isaiah 64:4 Psalm 72:9-11 Ezra 7:11-28 Isaiah 49:7 Joel 2:27 Ezra 6:7-12 Psalm 2:10-12 - 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the victorious be delivered?
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But thus saith : Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; And I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, And I will thy children.
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Isaiah 35:4 Jeremiah 50:33-34 Isaiah 54:15-17 Isaiah 41:11-12 Romans 8:31-39 Isaiah 54:13 Jeremiah 50:17-19 Isaiah 14:2 Genesis 12:3 Jeremiah 29:10 Jeremiah 51:35-36 Hebrews 2:14-15 Isaiah 10:27 Isaiah 25:9 Numbers 23:8-9 Zechariah 14:12 Revelation 18:20 Isaiah 52:2-5 Zechariah 9:11 Zechariah 12:3-6 1 John 3:8 Zechariah 9:13-16 Galatians 4:26 Zechariah 14:3 - 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own ; And they shall be drunken with their own , as with sweet wine; And all shall that I am thy Saviour, And thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of .