Isaiah 49:17

American Standard Version

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

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Isaiah 49:17 in other translations

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

Isaiah 49:17 · World English Bible

Isaiah 49:17 in context

  1. 15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
  2. 16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
  3. 17Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
  4. 18Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.
  5. 19For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.