Isaiah 49:21 Cross References - CAB

²¹ And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? Whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? And I was left alone; but from where did these come to me?

⁸ The daughter of Zion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

²⁶ And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and shall be leveled to the ground.

¹³ Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord; and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His fury; for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath; ¹⁸ and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared. ¹⁹ Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? Downfall and destruction, famine and sword; who shall comfort you? ²⁰ Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

² Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, O Jerusalem; put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

³ spread forth your tent yet to the right and the left; for your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and you shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited. ⁴ Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached; for you shall forget your former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood. ⁵ For it is the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is His name; and He that delivered you, He is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth. ⁶ The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, says your God. ⁷ For a little while I left you; but with great mercy will I have compassion upon you. ⁸ In a little wrath I turned away My face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.

¹⁵ Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

⁴ And you shall no more be called Forsaken; and your land shall no more be called Desert; for you shall be called My Pleasure, and your land Inhabited; for the Lord has taken pleasure in you, and your land shall be inhabited.

¹⁰ The city of Your holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

¹⁵ A voice was heard in Ramah, that of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing — Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not. ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord: Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears; for your work shall be rewarded, and they shall return from the land of your enemies. ¹⁷ There shall be an abiding home for your children.

¹ And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said:
( { ΰ}) ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! She has become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary. ² ( { α}) BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies. ³ ( { β}) GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude; she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

²⁹ "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light; and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. ³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

¹¹ I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. ¹² But if their transgression is the riches of the world, and their defeat is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! ¹³ For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry, ¹⁴ if somehow I may provoke to jealousy my fellow Jews, and I may save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their casting away means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance be, if not life from the dead? ¹⁶ For if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches. ¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

²⁴ For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer shall come out of Zion, and He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; ²⁷ For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins." ²⁸ As regards to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards to election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. ²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. ³⁰ For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now you were shown mercy through their disobedience, ³¹ even so these now were disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also might be shown mercy.

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. ²⁷ For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, who does not give birth; break forth and shout, who does not have birth pangs; because the children of the desolate are many more than those of her who has a husband." ²⁸ But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But just as then the one who was born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is also now.