Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands,.... Not upon his thick clouds, the clouds of heaven under him, always in view, as R. Saadiah Gaon, mentioned by Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi:…
Barnes' Notes
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands - This is another argument in answer to the complaint of Zion in Isa 49:14. There have been various interpretations of this passage. Grotius…
The scope of these verses is to show that the return of the people of God out of their captivity, and the eternal redemption to be wrought out by Christ (of which that was a type), would be great…
Cambridge Bible
I have graven thee Not the name merely but the picture of the city, as the next clause shews. Thy wallsmay refer to the ruined walls with their mute appeal to Jehovah's compassion, or to the plan of…
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