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Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
Isaiah 49:16 · Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah 49:16 in other translations
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
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In context
13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
17 Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
19 For 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.
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