Isaiah 49:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

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  • Isa 44:21 : 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.
  • Hos 11:1 : 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him?
  • Rom 11:28-29 : 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 Then the woman whose the living child was, spoke to the king, for her heart yearned for her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not kill it: she is the mother thereof.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
  • 2 Kgs 11:1-2 : 1 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal descendants. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain. She hid him and his nurse in the bedroom away from Athaliah, so he was not killed.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:

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  • 14But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.

  • Isa 49:16-17
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    16Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

    17Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

  • 32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • Isa 54:6-10
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    6For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

    7For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

    8In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.

    9For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

    10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.

  • Ps 137:5-6
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    5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

    6If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

  • 4Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

  • 11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    39Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence.

    40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • 3Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been carried by me from birth, who are carried from the womb:

  • Isa 49:21-22
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    21Then you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?

    22Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

  • 21Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.

  • 12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Job 39:15-16
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    15And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

    16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

  • Isa 66:11-13
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    11That you may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

    12For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you nurse, you shall be carried on her sides, and be dandled on her knees.

    13As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18There is none to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand of all the sons she has raised.

    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Isa 60:15-16
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    15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

    16You shall also drink the milk of the Gentiles, and shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

  • 9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.

  • 31(For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • 20Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?

  • 3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • 35Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you shall also bear your lewdness and your harlotries.

  • 1Listen to me, O islands; and hear me, you people from afar; The LORD has called me from the womb; from my mother's body he has made mention of my name.

  • 10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

  • 9But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

  • 17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • 20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.

  • 7The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

  • 10Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house;

  • 1How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

  • 9She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

  • 18(For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • 31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • 19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

  • 17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • 9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like a woman in labor.