Isaiah 49:18–22

18 zLift 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.

20 cThe 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.’

21 Then 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?’ ”

22 eThus 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;