Isaiah 49:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.”
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“Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 49:17 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Isaiah 51:18Among 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.
- Isaiah 51:22Thus 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.
- Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
- 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.
- 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.’
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