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Isaiah 49:17

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Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

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  1. Isaiah 49:15

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

  2. Isaiah 49:16

    Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

  3. Isaiah 49:18

    Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

  4. Isaiah 49:19

    For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

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