Devine Scripture

Isaiah 49:21

Isaiah chapter 49 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then shalt thou say in thy heart, 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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then shalt thou say in thy heart, 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?

Context

v.20The 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.

v.21This passage

v.22Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 11:24

    For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

  • Isaiah 3:26

    And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

  • Isaiah 60:15

    Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

  • Galatians 4:26

    But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

  • Lamentations 1:1

    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

  • Matthew 24:29

    But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: