16Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.


In Context

13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted.

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

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

16 Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.

18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, said the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.

Isaiah 49:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

49:16See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:16Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

49:16Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls are before Me continually.