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“Canהֲa womanאִשָּׁהforgetתִשְׁכַּחher nursing child,עוּלָהּso as not to have compassionמֵרַחֵםon the sonבֶּןof her womb?בִּטְנָהּEvenגַּםtheseאֵלֶּהmay forget,תִשְׁכַּחְנָהyet Iוְאָנֹכִיwill notלֹאforget you.אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ
Isaiah 49:15
Study it in the app““Can a woman forget her nursing child, so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
God says he would not forget his people, even if a mother forgot her childWho God IsZion says God has forgotten her; he answers that he will not forget her, and has engraved her on his palmsLoneliness
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 49:15, word by word
- a womanאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- forgetתִשְׁכַּחtishkach
forget
Forget.
Where else “tishkach” appears- her nursing childעוּלָula
nursing child
A nursing child, an infant at the breast.
Where else “ula” appears- so as not to have compassionרַחֵםrachem
have compassion
To feel tenderness for someone, like a mother for her child.
Where else “rachem” appears- on the sonבֶּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- of her wombבִּטְנָbitna
womb
The belly where a mother carries her child.
Where else “bitna” appears
The context
14And Zion said, “YHWH has abandoned me, and Adonai has forgotten me.”
15 · This verse (above)
16Look, on the palms of my hands I have engraved you; your walls are before me continually.