Isaiah 49:14 meaning and explanation

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

Isaiah 49:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Zion here speaks as a personified city, the ruined Jerusalem of the exiles, answering the joyful summons of verses 11 to 13 with a flat contradiction. The people had seen the temple destroyed and had waited long in Babylon, so their complaint is not abstract doubt but the weariness of those who feel abandoned by God.

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