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Isaiah 49:17

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste, shall go forth from thee.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— In haste, are thy sons,—They who have been tearing thee down and laying thee waste, out of thee, let them go forth!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Thy children shal make haste, thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste, shall goe forth of thee.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Your sons who caused your destruction and those who laid you waste shall make haste to go forth from you.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Thy children 1121
{1121} Prime
בֵּן
ben
{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
shall make haste; 4116
{4116} Prime
מָהַר
mahar
{maw-har'}
A primitive root; properly to be liquid or flow easily, that is, (by implication); to hurry (in a good or bad sense); often used (with another verb) adverbially promptly.
z8765
<8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2121
thy destroyers 2040
{2040} Prime
הָרַס
harac
{haw-ras'}
A primitive root; to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy.
z8764
<8764> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 685
and they that made thee waste 2717
{2717} Prime
חָרַב
charab
{khaw-rab'}
A primitive root; to parch (through drought), that is, (by analogy) to desolate, destroy, kill.
z8688
<8688> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 857
shall go forth 3318
{3318} Prime
יָצָא
yatsa'
{yaw-tsaw'}
A primitive root; to go (causatively bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proximate.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
of x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
thee.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Isaiah 49:17

_ _ Thy children — Israel (Isaiah 49:20, Isaiah 49:21; Isaiah 43:6). Jerome reads, for “Thy children,” “Thy builders”; they that destroyed thee shall hasten to build thee.

_ _ haste — to rebuild thy desolate capital.

_ _ shall go forth — Thy destroyers shall leave Judea to Israel in undisturbed possession.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Isaiah 49:13-17.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Isaiah 49:17

Thy children shall make (y) haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

(y) I have continual care to build you up again and to destroy your enemies.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
children:

Isaiah 51:18-20 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up. ... Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah 62:5 For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [them] whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:4-9 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. ... Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are] round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

haste:
Or, by a slight change of the points, "Thy builders shall make haste:" those appointed to build the city and walls of Zion, shall speedily begin and accomplish the work.

thy destroyers:

Isaiah 49:19 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.
Isaiah 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51:22-23 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: ... But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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Ezr 1:5. Ne 2:4, 17. Is 49:19; 51:13, 18, 22; 62:5. Ezk 28:24.

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