Isaiah 49:18-22

New American Standard Bible

^18 (A)Raise your eyes and look around;
^(B)All of them gather together, ^(C)they come to you.
^(D)As I live,” declares the Lord,
“You will certainly ^(E)put them all on as ^[a]jewelry and bind them on as a bride.
¹⁹ For ^(F)your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land—
Now you will certainly be ^(G)too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who ^(H)swallowed you will be far away.
²⁰ The ^(I)children ^[b]you lost will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’
²¹ Then you will ^(J)say in your heart,
‘Who has fathered these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And ^(K)cannot conceive, and I am an ^(L)exile, and a wanderer?
And who has raised these?
Behold, I was ^(M)left alone;
^[c](N)Where are these from?’”

“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations
And set up My ^(O)flag to the peoples;
And they will ^(P)bring your sons ^[e]in their arms,
And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.