Isaiah 49:15

God assures Zion that even if a nursing mother could forget her child, He will never forget His people.

Cross-references · 15

• Ps 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
• Isa 44:21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• Matt 7:11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
• Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
• Hos 11:1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Mal 3:17They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
• Lam 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• 1 Kgs 3:26–27Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
• 2 Kgs 6:28–29The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
• 2 Kgs 11:1–2Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
• Rom 11:28–29Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
• Lam 4:3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
• Deut 28:56–57The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
• Rom 1:31without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
• Lev 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

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