Isaiah 49:17–23

¹⁷Thy children shall make haste;

^uThy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

^18vLift up thine eyes round about, and behold:

^vAll these gather themselves together, and come to thee.

^wAs I live, saith the Lord, ^xthou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament,

And ^xxbind them on thee, ^yas a bride doeth.

¹⁹For ^yythy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of ^uthy destruction,

^zShall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,

And they that ^aswallowed thee up shall be far away.

^20bThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears,

The place is too strait for me:

^cGive place to me that I may dwell.

²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, ^dWho hath begotten me these,

Seeing I have lost my children, and ^eam desolate,

A captive, and removing to and fro?

And who hath brought up these?

Behold, I was left alone;

These, where had they been?

²²Thus saith the Lord God,

^fBehold, ^gI will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

And ^hset up my standard to the people:

And ⁱthey shall bring thy sons in their ^†arms,

And thy daughters ^jshall be carried upon their shoulders.

²³And ^kkings shall be thy ^†nursing fathers,

And their ^†queens thy nursing mothers:

^ilThey shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,

And ^mlick up the dust of thy feet;

And thou shalt know that I am the Lord:

For ⁿthey shall not be ashamed that wait for me.