² “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(C)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(D)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;

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.
^20 (I)The children of your bereavement
    will yet say in your ears:
^(J)‘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?
^(K)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?’”