◄ Isaiah 49:16 ►
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Good News Translation
Jerusalem, I can never forget you! I have written your name on the palms of my hands.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Contemporary English Version
A picture of your city is drawn on my hand. You are always in my thoughts!

New American Bible
See, upon the palms of my hands I have engraved you; your walls are ever before me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

I have

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Songs 8:6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

Haggai 2:23 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

thy walls

Isaiah 26:1 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

Isaiah 54:12 And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.

Isaiah 60:18 Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.

Revelation 21:10-21 And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, . . .

Context
You are My Servant
…15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. 16Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.17Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 48:12
Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

Psalm 48:13
Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

Songs 8:6
Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

Isaiah 62:6
Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

Isaiah 62:7
And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

Haggai 2:23
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 49:15
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