Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 49:15

"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee." — Isaiah 49:15 (ASV)

Can a woman forget the sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

The child is in a condition in which it reminds the mother of itself; her sucking child, her own child. Can she forget it? It is not according to nature,—

"'Yet,' says the Lord, 'should nature change
And mothers monsters prove,
Zion still dwells upon the heart
of everlasting love.'"

It would be contrary to his nature. As long as he is God, he must remember his people.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Can a woman—the more tender parent of the two, —forget her child,—her own child, her feeble little child that still depends upon her for its nourishment and life, —her sucking child,.

Yet will I not forget thee.

"'Yet,' says the Lord, should nature change
And mothers monsters prove,
Zion still dwells upon the heart
of everlasting love.'"

How that gracious assurance should comfort the little handful, the "remnant weak and small" of God's people among the Jews!

How it should also comfort any of God's servants who are under a cloud, and who have lost for a while the enjoyment of his presence!

Yea, they may forget, —

It is just possible; there have been such monstrosities: "they may forget," —