Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 49:16-17

"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee." — Isaiah 49:16-17 (ASV)

Your walls are continually before me. Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

For God is full of kindness to his people, and cannot forget them. Oh, that they would never forget him!

Your walls are continually before me. Your children shall make haste;

There shall be many of them. Converts shall be added to the church in great numbers. They shall hurry up; they shall not be long in coming. Very often they delay too long. The promise is, Your children shall make haste.

Your walls are continually before me. Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

Jerusalem, the very Jerusalem that is in Palestine, shall be rebuilt. God will remember her walls, and the Church of God in Israel shall yet rise from that sad low estate in which it has been these many centuries; and all God's cast-down ones shall be comforted, and his churches that seem to be left to die shall be raised up again, for our God is not fickle. His heart does not waver toward the sons of men.

"Whom once he loves, he never leaves,
But loves them to the end."