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Isaiah 49:16
“Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 49
14
But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
15
Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
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Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17
Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.
18
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says Yahweh, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
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