The Servant and Light to the Gentiles
Isaiah 49:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
- KJV
- Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
- WEB
- Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
- ASV
- Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
- LSV
- Behold, I have carved you on the palms of the hand, || Your walls [are] continually before Me.
- YLT
- Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls [are] before Me continually.
- DBY
- Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls are continually before me.
- DRC
- Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.
- GNV
- Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palme of mine hands: thy walles are euer in my sight.
- JPS
- Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.
- LXXE
- Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֵ֥ן עַל־כַּפַּ֖יִם חַקֹּתִ֑יךְ חוֹמֹתַ֥יִךְ נֶגְדִּ֖י תָּמִֽיד׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἰδοὺ ἐπὶ τῶν χειρῶν μου ἐζωγράφηκά σου τὰ τείχη, καὶ ἐνώπιόν μου εἶ διαπαντὸς,
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Haggai 2:23On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 60:18No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Isaiah 62:6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- Song of Songs 8:6Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- Isaiah 26:1In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
- Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Psalms 48:12–13March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
- Isaiah 54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
- Revelation 21:10–21And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious…
- Jeremiah 22:24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
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