Isaiah 49:21 Cross References

Isaiah 49:21

21: Then you will think to yourself, `Who has given me all these descendants? For most of my children were killed, and the rest were carried away into exile. I was left here all alone. Who bore these children? Who raised them for me?'"

Galatians 3:29

  1. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.

Isaiah 52:2

  1. Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem. Remove the slave bands from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 60:15

  1. "Though you were once despised and hated and rebuffed by all, you will be beautiful forever. You will be a joy to all generations, for I will make you so.

Matthew 24:29

  1. "Immediately after those horrible days end, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.
  2. And then at last, the sign of the coming of the Son of Man will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the nations of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Isaiah 5:13

  1. So I will send my people into exile far away because they do not know me. The great and honored among them will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.

Lamentations 1:1

  1. Jerusalem's streets, once bustling with people, are now silent. Like a widow broken with grief, she sits alone in her mourning. Once the queen of nations, she is now a slave.
  2. She sobs through the night; tears stream down her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one left to help her. All her friends have betrayed her; they are now her enemies.
  3. Judah has been led away into captivity, afflicted and enslaved. She lives among foreign nations and has no place of rest. Her enemies have chased her down, and she has nowhere to turn.

Jeremiah 31:15

  1. This is what the LORD says: "A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--mourning and weeping unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for her children are dead."
  2. But now the LORD says, "Do not weep any longer, for I will reward you. Your children will come back to you from the distant land of the enemy.
  3. There is hope for your future," says the LORD. "Your children will come again to their own land.

Isaiah 64:10

  1. Your holy cities are destroyed; even Jerusalem is a desolate wilderness.

Isaiah 51:17

  1. Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk enough from the cup of the LORD's fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops.
  2. Not one of your children is left alive to help you or tell you what to do.
  3. These two things have been your lot: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize? Who is left to comfort you?
  4. For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The LORD has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them.

Galatians 4:26

  1. But Sarah, the free woman, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. And she is our mother.
  2. That is what Isaiah meant when he prophesied, "Rejoice, O childless woman! Break forth into loud and joyful song, even though you never gave birth to a child. For the woman who could bear no children now has more than all the other women!"
  3. And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac.
  4. And we who are born of the Holy Spirit are persecuted by those who want us to keep the law, just as Isaac, the child of promise, was persecuted by Ishmael, the son of the slave-wife.

Isaiah 1:8

  1. Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman's shelter in a vineyard or field after the harvest is over. It is as helpless as a city under siege.

Luke 21:24

  1. They will be brutally killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be conquered and trampled down by the Gentiles until the age of the Gentiles comes to an end.

Romans 11:24

  1. For if God was willing to take you who were, by nature, branches from a wild olive tree and graft you into his own good tree--a very unusual thing to do--he will be far more eager to graft the Jews back into the tree where they belong.

Isaiah 62:4

  1. Never again will you be called the Godforsaken City or the Desolate Land. Your new name will be the City of God's Delight and the Bride of God, for the LORD delights in you and will claim you as his own.

Isaiah 54:3

  1. For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will take over other nations and live in their cities.
  2. "Fear not; you will no longer live in shame. The shame of your youth and the sorrows of widowhood will be remembered no more,
  3. for your Creator will be your husband. The LORD Almighty is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth.
  4. For the LORD has called you back from your grief--as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband," says your God.
  5. "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back.

Isaiah 3:26

  1. The gates of Jerusalem will weep and mourn. The city will be like a ravaged woman, huddled on the ground.

Romans 11:11

  1. Did God's people stumble and fall beyond recovery? Of course not! His purpose was to make his salvation available to the Gentiles, and then the Jews would be jealous and want it for themselves.
  2. Now if the Gentiles were enriched because the Jews turned down God's offer of salvation, think how much greater a blessing the world will share when the Jews finally accept it.
  3. I am saying all of this especially for you Gentiles. God has appointed me as the apostle to the Gentiles. I lay great stress on this,
  4. for I want to find a way to make the Jews want what you Gentiles have, and in that way I might save some of them.
  5. For since the Jews' rejection meant that God offered salvation to the rest of the world, how much more wonderful their acceptance will be. It will be life for those who were dead!

Romans 11:26

  1. And so all Israel will be saved. Do you remember what the prophets said about this? "A Deliverer will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel from all ungodliness.
  2. And then I will keep my covenant with them and take away their sins."
  3. Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  4. For God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.
  5. Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the Jews refused his mercy, God was merciful to you instead.
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