14 But Zion said, (A)“The Lord has forsaken me;
    my Lord has forgotten me.”

15 (B)“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, (C)I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls are continually before me.
17 Your builders make haste;[a]
    (D)your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 (E)Lift up your eyes around and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
(F)As I live, declares the Lord,
    (G)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
    you shall bind them on as a bride does.

19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
(H)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste

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