And my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
Yet I will not forget you...Lift up your eyes, look around and see;
All these gather together and come to you.
As I live,” says the Lord,
“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament,
And bind them on you as a bride does." vv.14-15,18
Read chapter 49
Women's emotions are all over the place and these emotions help us relate the prophet's description here of the relationship between Israel and God. Here Zion is referred to as a woman (Hebrew word for this city being feminine). First we see the cry of feeling forsaken and disbelief of comfort from God stated in verse 13, she's been abandoned by her husband. Isaiah doesn't just go to her smiling and saying believe in God and all will be well, but is sensitive to her and relates sympathetically and imaginatively. God's love is more enduring than the supreme example of human love in a mother and her child! Another emotion of a woman is needing friends and feeling loved and adored. The promise that Zion will one day again be filled with people and buildings, will be a beautiful city as once was (and more) is how Isaiah describes the fulfillment of that yearning.
What emotions of Zion's can you relate to?
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