17 Your [a]builders hurry;
Your (A)destroyers and devastators
Will leave you.
18 (B)Raise your eyes and look around;
(C)All of them gather together, (D)they come to you.
(E)As I live,” declares the Lord,
“You will certainly (F)put them all on as [b]jewelry and bind them on as a bride.
19 For (G)your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land—
Now you will certainly be (H)too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who (I)swallowed you will be far away.
20 The (J)children [c]you lost will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 Ancient versions and DSS; MT sons
  2. Isaiah 49:18 Lit an ornament
  3. Isaiah 49:20 Lit of your bereavement

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