Isaiah 49:17

In 11 translations

BSB

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.DSS; MT Your sons

KJV

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

WEB

Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

ASV

Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

LSV

Those building you have hurried, || Those destroying you, and laying you waste, go out from you.

YLT

Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

DBY

Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.

DRC

Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

GNV

Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee.

JPS

Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

LXXE

And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou wert destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

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WLC

מִֽהֲר֖וּ בָּנָ֑יִךְ מְהָֽרְסַ֥יִךְ וּמַחֲרִבַ֖יִךְ מִמֵּ֥ךְ יֵצֵֽאוּ׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ταχὺ οἰκοδομηθήσῃ ὑφʼ ὧν καθῃρέθης, καὶ οἱ ἐρημώσαντές σε ἐξελεύσονται ἐκ σοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 62:5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
• Isaiah 51:13But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But…
• Ezekiel 28:24For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
• Isaiah 51:22–23Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again. I will place it in the…
• Isaiah 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
• Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
• Nehemiah 2:4–9“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city…
• Isaiah 51:18–20Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand. These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will…
• Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
• Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

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