Isaiah 49:20–26

^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.”

²⁴ⁱShall the prey be taken from the mighty,

Or the captives ⁵of the righteous be delivered?

²⁵But thus says the Lord:

“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

And the prey of the terrible be delivered;

For I will contend with him who contends with you,

And I will save your children.

²⁶I will ^jfeed those who oppress you with their own flesh,

And they shall be drunk with their own ^kblood as with sweet wine.

All flesh ^lshall know

That I, the Lord, am your Savior,

And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”