Isaiah 49:14–21

Yahweh Remembers Zion

14 Butn Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,

and the Lord has forgotten me!”

15 Can a woman forget her suckling,

refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb?

Indeed, these may forget,

buto I, I will not forget you!

16 Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;

your walls are continually before me.

17 Your children hasten;

your destroyers and those who laid you waste departp from you.

18 Lift your eyes up all around and see;

all of them gather; they come to you.

⌊As surely as I live⌋,q

⌊declares⌋r Yahweh,

surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament,

and you shall bind them on like a bride.

19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins,s

surely now you will be ⌊too cramped for your⌋t inhabitants,u

and those who engulfed you will be far away.

20 Yet the children ⌊born when you were bereaved⌋v will say in your ⌊hearing⌋,w

“The place is too cramped for me;

⌊make room⌋x for me so that I can dwell.”

21 Theny you will say in your heart,

“Who has borne me these?”

And, “I was bereaved and barren,

exiled and thrust away;

soz who raised these?

Look at me! I was left alone;

⌊where have these come from⌋?”a