Isaiah 49:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will lift up mine hand; I will call them to me, and command them to do this work, as men commonly signify their calls and commands by this gesture. Set up my standard, as generals do to gather their forces together. See Poole on "Isaiah 11:12". To the people; unto thee, or to thy church and people. Shall bring thy sons; those which shall be thine, if not by natural generation, yet by adoption, that shall own God for their Father, and Jerusalem for their mother. In their arms; with great care and tenderness, as nurses carry young infants. The sense is, Even the heathen shall contribute to the increase and preservation of those children which shall be begotten to thee. Thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders; as sick or infirm persons used to be carried.. See Mark 2:3 Luke 15:5.