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Isaiah 49:15 Cross-References
Explore 13 cross-references for Isaiah 49:15 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Isaiah chapter 49 verse 15 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. that: Heb. from having compassion”
Isaiah 49:15 (KJV)
Commentary on Isaiah 49:15
This is one of Scripture's most tender expressions of God's unfailing love, using maternal imagery to convey covenant faithfulness. God poses a hypothetical: 'Can a woman forget her sucking child?' The nursing relationship represents the strongest natural bond—a mother's hormonal, emotional, and physical connection to her infant. The Hebrew shakach (שָׁכַח, forget) means to completely cease remembering, to abandon from mind. 'That she should not have compassion' uses racham (רָחַם), from the word for womb—suggesting the deep, visceral love mothers feel. God acknowledges the unthinkable possibi...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Isaiah 49:15
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“Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel”
“so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”
“being evil”
“I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him”
“says Yahweh of Armies, my own possession in the day that I make”
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“for her heart yearned over her son”
“What ails you? She answered”
“she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.”