Upon the Palms of My Hands

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1 Nephi 21 (Compare Isaiah 49.)
15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have 

compassion on the son of her womb? Yea,they may forget, yet will I not forget 

thee, O house of Israel.

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

[23] for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives delivered?
25 But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that
contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

When this prophecy was uttered the Israelites were in captivity, and the city was a wilderness, ‘the holy and beautiful House’—as this very book says—‘where the fathers praised Thee was burned with fire,’ the walls were broken down, rubbish and solitude were there. Yet on the palms of God’s hands were inscribed the walls which were nowhere else! They were ‘before Him,’ though Jerusalem was a ruin. 

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/maclaren/isa_jer.ii.ii.iv.html

MT:  He sees our walls, our condition, what we could be.   He also sees the walls that keep us from happiness, from Him -- the walls that we put up ourselves and the obstacles that come to us in various  other ways.