Isaiah 49:17–23

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?’ ”

^22eThus says the Lord God:

“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,

And set up My ³standard for the peoples;

They shall bring your sons in their ⁴arms,

And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;

^23fKings shall be your foster fathers,

And their queens your nursing mothers;

They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,

And ^glick up the dust of your feet.

Then you will know that I am the Lord,

^hFor they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”