Isaiah 49:14–21

God Will Remember Zion

^14vBut Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,

And my Lord has forgotten me.”

¹⁵“Can ^wa woman forget her nursing child,

¹And not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Surely they may forget,

^xYet I will not forget you.

¹⁶See, ^yI have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;

Your walls are continually before Me.

¹⁷Your ²sons shall make haste;

Your destroyers and those who laid you waste

Shall go away from you.

^18zLift up your eyes, look around and see;

All these gather together and come to you.

As I live,” says the Lord,

“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all ^aas an ornament,

And bind them on you as a bride does.

¹⁹“For your waste and desolate places,

And the land of your destruction,

^bWill even now be too small for the inhabitants;

And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

^20cThe children you will have,

^dAfter you have lost the others,

Will say again in your ears,

‘The place is too small for me;

Give me a place where I may dwell.’

²¹Then you will say in your heart,

‘Who has begotten these for me,

Since I have lost my children and am desolate,

A captive, and wandering to and fro?

And who has brought these up?

There I was, left alone;

But these, where were they?’ ”