Isaiah 49
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Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

listen

Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their …

Isaiah 42:1-4,12 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …

Isaiah 45:22 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am …

Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms …

Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, …

Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape …

Zephaniah 2:11 The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods …

and hearken

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; …

Isaiah 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, …

Ephesians 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them …

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …

the Lord

Isaiah 49:5 And now, said the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, …

Psalm 71:5,6 For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth…

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came …

Matthew 1:20,21 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD …

Luke 1:15,31-31 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither …

Luke 2:10,11 And the angel said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good …

John 10:36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the …

Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, …

1 Peter 1:20 Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but …

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

he hath made

Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with …

Psalm 45:2-5 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your …

Hosea 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by …

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any …

Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went …

Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things said …

Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite …

in the

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …

Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in …

Psalm 91:1 He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under …

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into …

made me. The polished shaft, says Bp. Lowth, denotes the same efficacious word which is before represented by the sharp sword. The doctrine of the gospel pierced the hearts of its hearers, 'bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.'

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should …

Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed …

Psalm 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby …

Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made you this day a defended city, and an iron …

Jeremiah 15:19,20 Therefore thus said the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you …

And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

I have laboured

Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which …

Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, …

Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, …

Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them …

John 1:11 He came to his own, and his own received him not.

Romans 10:21 But to Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hands …

Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed on you labor in vain.

spent

Leviticus 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not …

2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more …

yet

Isaiah 53:10-12 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when …

Psalm 22:22-31 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation …

Luke 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

John 17:4,5 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which …

2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are to God a sweet smell of Christ, in them that are saved, …

Philippians 2:9 Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is …

Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the …

work. or, reward

Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall …

Isaiah 62:11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the world, Say you …

And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

that formed

Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD …

to bring

Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O …

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of …

Acts 10:36 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace …

Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for …

though, etc. or, that Israel may be gathered to him, and I may, etc. Israel

Matthew 21:37-41 But last of all he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son…

Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them …

Luke 19:42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day…

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have …

yet

Psalm 110:1-3 The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make …

Matthew 3:17 And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom …

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows the …

Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and …

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me …

John 3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

John 5:20-27 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself …

Ephesians 1:20-22 Which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and …

1 Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels …

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

the redeemer

Isaiah 48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the …

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …

to him whom man despiseth. or, to him that is despised in soul

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted …

Psalm 22:6-8 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people…

Psalm 69:7-9,19 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face…

Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed …

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …

Matthew 27:38-44 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right …

Luke 23:18,23 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release …

John 18:40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now …

John 19:6,15 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried …

to a

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, …

Luke 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sits at meat, or he that serves? …

kings

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing …

Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths …

Isaiah 60:3,10,16 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness …

Psalm 2:10-12 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth…

Psalm 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out …

Psalm 72:10,11 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying…

and he

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …

Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided …

1 Peter 2:4 To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but …

Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

in an

Psalm 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: …

John 11:41,42 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. …

2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he said, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day …

Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted …

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…

have I helped

Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …

Isaiah 50:7-9 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: …

Acts 2:24-32 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because …

give thee

Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, …

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many …

Hebrews 8:6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also …

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of …

establish. or, raise up

Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in …

Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up …

to cause

Isaiah 49:19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, …

Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; …

Isaiah 54:3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and …

Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you …

Isaiah 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former …

Psalm 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, …

Ephesians 2:12-19 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the …

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

to the

Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, …

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed …

Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

Psalm 102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed …

Psalm 107:10-16 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in …

Psalm 146:7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the …

Zechariah 9:11,12 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth …

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach …

Colossians 1:13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated …

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, …

to them

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they …

Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead …

Isaiah 60:1,2 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is …

Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, …

John 8:12 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: …

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and …

2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which …

Ephesians 5:8,14 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: …

1 Thessalonians 5:5,6 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we …

they shall feed

Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places …

Isaiah 55:1,2 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has …

Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, …

Psalm 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that …

Psalm 23:1,2 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want…

Ezekiel 34:13-15,23,29 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the …

Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop …

John 6:52-58 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this …

John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and …

high

Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat …

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

O heavens

Isaiah 42:10,11 Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, …

Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts …

Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: …

Isaiah 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains …

Psalm 96:11-13 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, …

Psalm 98:4-9 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, …

Luke 2:13,14 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly …

Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels …

Revelation 5:8-13 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty …

Revelation 7:9-12 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could …

the Lord

Isaiah 12:1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though …

Isaiah 40:1,2 Comfort you, comfort you my people, said your God…

Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; …

Isaiah 61:2,3 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance …

Isaiah 66:13,14 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall …

Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old …

2 Corinthians 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted …

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which …

But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

lift up

Isaiah 60:4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves …

Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, …

Matthew 13:41,42 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather …

Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …

all these

Isaiah 49:12,22 Behold, these shall come from far: and, see, these from the north …

Isaiah 43:5,6 Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, …

Isaiah 54:1-3 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, …

Isaiah 60:5-11 Then you shall see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear, …

Isaiah 66:12,13,20 For thus said the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a …

Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them …

Galatians 3:28,29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there …

as I live

Isaiah 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that …

Genesis 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you …

Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no …

thou shalt

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my …

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children …

as a bride

Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people …

Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God …

doeth. Bp. Lowth adds from the LXX., her jewels.

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

king. Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.

Isaiah 49:7 Thus said the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to …

Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths …

Isaiah 60:3,10,11,16 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness …

Isaiah 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your …

Ezra 1:2-4 Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given …

Ezra 6:7-12 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the …

Ezra 7:11-28 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave …

Nehemiah 2:6-10 And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how …

Esther 8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' …

Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth …

Esther 10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the isles of the sea.

Psalm 2:10-12 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth…

Psalm 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out …

Psalm 72:10,11 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …

Psalm 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear …

Revelation 21:24-26 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of …

nursing fathers. Heb. nourishers

Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many …

queens. Heb. princesses. Bow

Isaiah 45:14 Thus said the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia …

Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending to you…

Genesis 43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was …

Psalm 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies …

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …

lick up

Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their …

for they

Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited …

Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived …

Psalm 25:3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which …

Psalm 34:22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that …

Psalm 69:6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for …

Romans 5:5 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad …

Romans 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock …

Romans 10:11 For the scripture said, Whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

1 Peter 2:6 Why also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion …

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

even

Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken …

Isaiah 52:2-5 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose …

Jeremiah 29:10 For thus said the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished …

Jeremiah 50:17-19,33,34 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first …

Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth …

Hebrews 2:14,15 For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, …

1 John 3:8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the …

captives. Heb. captivity. I will contend

Isaiah 41:11,12 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed …

Isaiah 54:15-17 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whoever …

Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: …

Numbers 23:8,9 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, …

Jeremiah 51:35,36 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the …

Zechariah 9:13-16 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised …

Zechariah 12:3-6 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all …

Zechariah 14:3,12 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as …

Romans 8:31-39 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can …

Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …

I will save

Isaiah 54:13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall …

Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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