Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
- BSB Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
- NKJV Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.
- NASB “Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.
- NLT Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.
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Quick answer
Zion's children hurry back while her destroyers depart, signaling the reversal of her desolation.
Overview
The same God who remembers Zion now acts: her builders or children return swiftly while those who tore her down leave. The city's fortunes are reversed. This rebuilding of God's people prefigures the gathering and growth of the church, the Zion God raises up through Christ (Hebrews 12:22).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 51:13And 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?
- Isa 62:5For 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.
- Ezek 28:24And 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.
- Isa 51:22–23Thus 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:
- Isa 51:18–20There 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.
- Isa 49:19For 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.
- Neh 2:4–9Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
- Isa 10:6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Ezra 1:5Then 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.
- Neh 2:17Then 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.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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