¹² For thus says the Lord:
^(A)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and ^(B)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
    and bounced upon her knees.

¹⁹ “Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
^(A)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
^20 (B)The children of your bereavement
    will yet say in your ears:
^(C)‘The place is too narrow for me;
    make room for me to dwell in.’
²¹ Then you will say in your heart:
    ‘Who has borne me these?
^(D)I was bereaved and barren,
    exiled and put away,
    but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
    from where have these come?’”

²² Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
    ^(E)and raise my signal to the peoples;
^(F)and they shall bring your sons in their arms,^[a]
    and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
^23 (G)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
^(H)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and ^(I)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    ^(J)those who wait for me ^(K)shall not be put to shame.”