Isaiah 49:18-23

New King James Version

¹⁸^(A)Lift 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 ^(B)as an ornament,
And bind them on you as a bride does.

¹⁹“For your waste and desolate places,
And the land of your destruction,
^(C)Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰^(D)The children you will have,
^(E)After 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?’ ”

²²^(F)Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,
And set up My ^[a]standard for the peoples;
They shall bring your sons in their ^[b]arms,
And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
²³^(G)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And ^(H)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
^(I)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”