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Restoration and Promise to Gather Israel

Isaiah 49:9-26

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Chapter 49
9 saying, "To the bound ones, 'Go out.' To those in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' They will graze on the ways, and their pasture will be on all bare heights." 10 They will not hunger or thirst, and heat will not strike them, nor the sun, for the one having compassion on them will lead them and guide them to springs of water. 11 And I will make all the mountains into a way, and my highways will be raised up. 12 Behold—these will come from afar, and behold—these from the north and the sea, and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Rejoice, heavens, and exult, land, and let the mountains burst into song, for the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted. 14 Zion said, "The LORD has abandoned me, and my Lord has forgotten me." 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, the child from her womb? Even these will forget, but I will not forget you. 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. 17 Your sons hurry; your destroyers and those who lay you waste have gone out from you. 18 Lift up your eyes all around and see: they are all gathered; they have come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you will wear them all as an adornment, and you will bind them on as a bride. 19 For your ruins and your desolations and the land of your destructions—for now you will be crowded by inhabitants, and those who devoured you will be far away. 20 The children born in your barrenness will still say in your ears, "The place is too narrow for us; make room for me so that I may dwell." 21 And you will say in your heart, "Who has borne these for me? I am bereaved and barren, exiled and estranged—and these, who has raised them? Behold, I have been left alone; these, where did they come from?" 22 Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift my hand to nations, and to peoples I will raise my ensign, and they will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters they will carry on their shoulder." 23 And kings will be your foster fathers, and their princesses your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground, and they will lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me will not be ashamed. 24 Shall one take spoil from a mighty man, or shall the captivity of the righteous be delivered? 25 For thus says the LORD: Even the captivity of a mighty one he will take, and the plunder of a tyrant he will deliver. And I will contend with your rival, and I will rescue your sons. 26 And I will feed your tormentors with your flesh, and they will be drunk with their blood like new wine, and all flesh will know that I am the LORD your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.