Bible verse
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
Isaiah 49:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 49.
12 Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
17 Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
19 For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
KJV
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.
ASV
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
ERV
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
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