The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 49:22

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I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles. The new children—the new converts—are to come from the Gentiles; the fresh "sons" and "daughters" will be carried by the nations in their arms, and by the peoples upon their shoulders.

It is usual to expound this and parallel passages (Isaiah 60:4; Isaiah 66:20) of the return of the Jews to their own land by favour of the Gentiles, either when the decree of Cyrus went forth, or at some still future period.

But perhaps the children intended are foster-children, actual Gentiles, whom their parents will bring to baptism. In the Assyrian sculptures, mothers are constantly represented as carrying their children upon their shoulders.

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