¹⁵ “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
So that no one went through you,
I will make you an eternal excellence,
A joy of many generations.

^(B)“Praise the Lord of hosts,
For the Lord is good,
For His mercy endures forever”—

⁹ “For this is like the waters of ^(E)Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with ^(F)you, nor rebuke you.
¹⁰ For ^(G)the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
^(H)But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

¹¹ “O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with ^(I)colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
¹² I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
Your gates of crystal,
And all your walls of precious stones.
¹³ All your children shall be ^(J)taught by the Lord,
And ^(K)great shall be the peace of your children.
¹⁴ In righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And from terror, for it shall not come near you.

¹⁵ “Can^(B) a woman forget her nursing child,
^[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
^(C)Yet I will not forget you.
¹⁶ See, ^(D)I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me.
¹⁷ Your ^[b]sons shall make haste;
Your destroyers and those who laid you waste
Shall go away from you.
^18 (E)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 ^(F)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,
^(G)Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
^20 (H)The children you will have,
^(I)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.’
²¹ Then 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?’ ”

“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,
And set up My ^[c]standard for the peoples;
They shall bring your sons in their ^[d]arms,
And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
^23 (K)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 ^(L)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
^(M)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

“We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,
The One ^(G)who is and who was ^[b]and who is to come,
Because You have taken Your great power ^(H)and reigned.