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


In Context

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

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!

16 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.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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