Isaiah 49:18

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

Key Reflection

In Isaiah 49:18, these words suggest a future restoration where God's people will experience relief and renewal after suffering. The "destroyers" and "devastators" who have brought pain will depart, allowing the afflicted to find solace and see their children return, symbolizing hope and healing in the aftermath of calamity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Lift up thine eyes round about -That is, see the multitudes that shall be converted to thee; see thy ruined city rise again in its former beauty; see the Gentiles come and yield themselves to the worship of the true God; see kings and princes approach and do thee homage. All these gather themselves -That is, from a far country, from the north, the west, and the south,Isaiah 49:12. As I live, saith the Lord -The customary form of an oath when Yahweh swears It is a solemn assurance that the event shall as certainly occur as he has an existence (see the note atIsaiah 45:23; compareJeremiah 22:24;Ezekiel 5:11;Ezekiel 14:16,Ezekiel 14:18,Ezekiel 14:20;Ezekiel 16:48).

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