Isaiah 49:20–26

²⁰The children taken from you will say to you, 

“This place is too crowded for me. 

Make room for me to live here.” 

²¹Then you will ask yourself, 

“Who has fathered these ⸤children⸥ for me? 

I was childless and unable to have children. 

I was exiled and rejected. 

Who raised these ⸤children for me⸥? 

I was left alone. 

Where have they come from?” 

²²This is what the Almighty Lord says: 

I will lift my hand ⸤to signal⸥ the nations. 

I will raise my flag for the people. 

They will bring your sons in their arms 

and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 

²³Then kings will be your foster fathers, 

and their queens will nurse you. 

They will bow in front of you 

with their faces touching the ground. 

They will lick the dust at your feet. 

Then you will know that I am the Lord. 

Those who wait with hope for me will not be put to shame. 

²⁴Can loot be taken away from mighty men 

or prisoners be freed from conquerors? 

²⁵This is what the Lord says: 

Prisoners will be freed from mighty men. 

Loot will be taken away from tyrants. 

I will fight your enemies, 

and I will save your children. 

²⁶I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, 

and they will become drunk on their own blood 

as though it were new wine. 

Then all humanity will know that I am the Lord, who saves you, 

the Mighty One of Jacob, who reclaims you.