Isaiah 49:17 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
Isaiah 49:17 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Isaiah 49:17 in 6 Bible Translations
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Isaiah 49:17 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.”
Isaiah 49:17 — World English Bible
Isaiah 49:17 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.”
Isaiah 49:17 — American Standard Version
Isaiah 49:17 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.”
Isaiah 49:17 — Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 49:17 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.”
Isaiah 49:17 — Darby Translation
Isaiah 49:17 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee.”
Isaiah 49:17 — Geneva Bible
Isaiah 49:17 in Context — 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.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
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.
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.
What Does Isaiah 49:17 Mean?
Isaiah 49:17 is a verse from the Book of Isaiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Isaiah chapter 49. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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