Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are forever before Me.
New American Standard Bible
Your
King James Version
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Holman Bible
your walls are continually before Me.
International Standard Version
Look! I've inscribed you on the palms of my hands, and your walls are forever before me.
A Conservative Version
Behold, I have engraved thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before me.
American Standard Version
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Amplified
“Indeed, I have inscribed [a picture of] you on the
Your city walls [Zion] are continually before Me.
Bible in Basic English
See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Darby Translation
Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, upon the palms I engraved thee; thy walls before me continually.
King James 2000
Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of [my] hands; your walls [are] continually before me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, I have written thee up upon my hands, thy walls are ever in my sight.
NET Bible
Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! on the palms of my hands, have portrayed thee, - Thy walls are before me continually.
Webster
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
World English Bible
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls are before Me continually.
Themes
Breastplate » Worn as a memorial
Contention » Who the lord contends with
Gentiles/heathen » The gentiles nursing israel
hands » Parts of, mentioned » The palm
God, Love Of » Described as » Unfailing
Opposition » Who the lord opposes
Oppression » Those that oppress israel
Remembrance » Who the lord will remember
Interlinear
Chaqaq
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 49:16
Prayers for Isaiah 49:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Remembers Zion
15 Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. 16 Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are forever before Me. 17 Your sons shall make haste; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal on Your heart, as a seal on Your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Jehovah.
Haggai 2:23
In that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, says Jehovah, and will make you like a signet; for I have chosen you, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Exodus 13:9
And it shall be a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Jehovah's Law may be in your mouth. For the Lord has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.
Psalm 48:12-13
Walk around Zion, and go all around it; count the towers of it,
Isaiah 26:1
In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as our walls and banks.
Isaiah 54:12
And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence will no more be heard in your land, wasting nor ruin within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent.
Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pull you out of there!
Revelation 21:10-21
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God,