Isaiah 49:17 “Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from yo…”

Isaiah 49:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee.

Darby Translation

Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Young's Literal Translation

Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

Bible in Basic English

Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.

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Cross references

“children”

Isaiah 62:5 Ezekiel 28:24 Isaiah 51:18–20 Ezra 1:5 Nehemiah 2:4–9 Nehemiah 2:17

Isaiah 62:5 · BSB

For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Ezekiel 28:24 · BSB

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

Isaiah 51:18–20 · BSB

Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

Ezra 1:5 · BSB

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:4–9 · BSB

“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

Nehemiah 2:17 · BSB

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

“thy destroyers”

Isaiah 51:13 Isaiah 49:19 Isaiah 51:22 Isaiah 51:23

Isaiah 51:13 · BSB

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where…

Isaiah 49:19 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 51:22 · BSB

Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

Isaiah 51:23 · BSB

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

Also

Isaiah 10:6

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

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.

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