Isaiah 49:17
New International Version
Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

New Living Translation
Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.

English Standard Version
Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

Berean Standard Bible
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

King James Bible
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

New King James Version
Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

New American Standard Bible
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.

NASB 1995
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

NASB 1977
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

Amplified Bible
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will go away from you.

Christian Standard Bible
Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

American Standard Version
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Your children, your destroyers and your plunderers shall go out from you quickly

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

Contemporary English Version
"Your city will be built faster than it was destroyed--those who attacked it will retreat and leave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

English Revised Version
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your children will hurry back. Those who destroyed you and laid waste to you will leave you.

Good News Translation
"Those who will rebuild you are coming soon, and those who destroyed you will leave.

International Standard Version
Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you go away from you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy children make haste; Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Literal Standard Version
Those building you have hurried, | Those destroying you, and laying you waste, go out from you.

Majority Standard Bible
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

New American Bible
Your children hasten— your levelers, your destroyers go forth from you;

NET Bible
Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

New Revised Standard Version
Your builders outdo your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go away from you.

New Heart English Bible
Your builders hurry; your destroyers and those who devastated you shall depart from you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste, shall go forth from thee.

World English Bible
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

Young's Literal Translation
Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

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Context
You are My Servant
16Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me. 17Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you. 18Lift 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.…

Cross References
Psalm 137:3
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: "Sing us a song of Zion."

Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 37:18
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.

Ezekiel 36:10
I will multiply the people upon you--the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.


Treasury of Scripture

Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.

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…

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.

haste.

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 51:13,22,23
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? …

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Isaiah 49
1. Christ being sent to the Jews, complains of them
5. He is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises
13. God's love is perpetual to his church
18. The ample restoration of the church
24. The powerful deliverance out of captivity














(17) Thy children shall make haste.--A various reading adopted by the LXX., Targum, and Vulg., gives thy builders. They rush to their work of restoration; the destroyers and ravagers go forth.

Verse 17. - Thy children shall make haste; i.e. "thy exiled children shall hasten, when the appointed time comes, to return to Zion, and rebuild its temple and towers and walls." At the same time, thy destroyers and they that have made thee waste, who are regarded as still carrying on their devastations, shall leave thee and go forth of thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your builders
בָּנָ֑יִךְ (bā·nā·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

hasten back;
מִֽהֲר֖וּ (mi·hă·rū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly

those who laid you waste
מְהָֽרְסַ֥יִךְ (mə·hā·rə·sa·yiḵ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2040: To pull down, in pieces, break, & destroy

will depart.
יֵצֵֽאוּ׃ (yê·ṣê·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim


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