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Isaiah 49:16
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Look, I have inscribed 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.
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 inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
See, I have written your name on my hand. Jerusalem, I always think about your walls.
"Indeed, I have inscribed [a picture of] you on the palms of My hands; Your city walls [Zion] are continually before Me.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palme of mine hands: thy walles are euer in my sight.
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;Your walls are continually before Me.
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
A picture of your city is drawn on my hand. You are always in my thoughts!
I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, your walls are always before me."
Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls are continually before me.
I drew a picture of you on my hand. You are always before my eyes.
Behold, I have inscribed you upon the palms of my hands; your fortified walls are continually before me.
Jerusalem, I can never forget you! I have written your name on the palms of my hands.
Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are always before Me.
Beholde, I haue written the vp vpon my hondes, thy walles are euer in my sight.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.
Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palmes of my hands: thy walles are continually before mee.
Beholde, I haue written thee vp vpon my handes, thy walles are euer in my syght.
Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Lo! Y haue write thee in myn hondis; thi wallis ben euer bifore myn iyen.
Look, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.
Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins.
See, I have marked your names on My hands. Your walls are always before Me.
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Lo! on the palms of my hands, have portrayed thee, - Thy walls are before me continually.
Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.
Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls [are] before Me continually.
"Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I have: Exodus 13:9, Song of Solomon 8:6, Jeremiah 22:24, Haggai 2:23
thy walls: Isaiah 26:1, Isaiah 54:12, Isaiah 60:18, Revelation 21:10-21
Reciprocal: Exodus 28:9 - grave Exodus 28:29 - a Isaiah 14:1 - the strangers Isaiah 44:21 - thou shalt
Cross-References
Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.
And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.
Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father.
But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:
Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:
Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.
Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.
And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.
Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands,.... Not upon his thick clouds, the clouds of heaven under him, always in view, as R. Saadiah Gaon, mentioned by Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi: much better the Targum,
"lo, as upon the hands thou art engraven before me;''
signifying that his people were always in his sight, his eyes were ever upon them, and never withdrawn from them; as anything held in the hand, or tied to or wore upon it, as a signet or ring that has the name of a person on it, to which the allusion may be; which shows how near and dear they are to him, what affection he has for them, and care of them; see Song of Solomon 8:6. Some think respect is had to the wounds in the hands of Christ, which, being on their account, are looked upon and remembered by him; or, however, to their being in his hands, out of which none can pluck them, John 10:28:
thy walls are continually before me; not the walls of Jerusalem to rebuild, though there may be an allusion to them; but either the walls of their houses where they dwell; his delights being in the habitable parts of his earth, where his saints are; or rather the walls of the church of God, for the erecting and establishing of which he is concerned. The metaphor seems to be taken from an architect that has the plan of a building, a house, or a city and its walls, in his hand, or lying before him. The phrase denotes the constant care and concern of Jehovah for the protection and safety of his church and people; who places angels about them, salvation for walls and bulwarks to them, yea, he himself is a wall of fire about them, Isaiah 26:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands - This is another argument in answer to the complaint of Zion in Isaiah 49:14. There have been various interpretations of this passage. Grotius supposes that it refers to a custom of placing some mark or sign on the hand, or on one of the fingers when they wished to remember anything, and appeals to Exodus 13:9. Lowth supposes that it is an allusion to some practice common among the Jews at that time, of making marks on their hands or arms by means of punctures in the skin with some sign or representation of the city or temple, to show their zeal and affection for it. In illustration of this, he refers to the fact that the pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre are accustomed to get themselves marked in this manner with what are called the signs of Jerusalem. Vitringa supposes that it alludes to the custom of architects, in which they delineate the size, form, and proportions of an edifice on parchment, before they commence building it - such as we mean by the draft or model of the building; and that the sense here is, that God, in like manner, had delineated or drawn Jerusalem on his hands long before it was founded, and had it constantly before his eyes. According to this, the idea is, that God had laid out the plan of Jerusalem long before it was built, and that it was so dear to him that he had even engraven it on his hands. Others have supposed that it refers to a device on a signet, or on a ring worn on the finger or the wrist, and that the plan of Jerusalem was drawn and engraven there. To me, it seems that the view of Lowth is most accordant with probability, and is best, sustained by the Oriental customs. The essential idea is, that Zion was dear to his heart; and that he had sketched or delineated it as an object in which he felt a deep interest - so deep as even to delineate its outlines on the palms of his bands, where it would be constantly before him.
Thy walls - The meaning is, that he constantly looked upon them; that he never forgot them. He had a constant and sacred regard for his people, and amidst all their disasters and trials, still remembered them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 49:16. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands - "Behold, on the palms of my hands have I delineated thee"] This is certainly an allusion to some practice, common among the Jews at that time, of making marks on their hands or arms by punctures on the skin, with some sort of sign or representation of the city or temple, to show their affection and zeal for it. They had a method of making such punctures indelible by fire, or by staining. Isaiah 44:6. It is well known, that the pilgrims at the holy sepulchre get themselves marked in this manner with what are called the ensigns of Jerusalem. See Maundrell, p. 75, where he tells us how it is performed: and this art is practiced by travelling Jews all over the world at this day.
