⁸ Who has ever heard of such things?
    Who has ever seen^(A) things like this?
Can a country be born in a day^(B)
    or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
    than she gives birth to her children.^(C)
9 Do I bring to the moment of birth^(D)
    and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
    when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
¹⁰ “Rejoice^(E) with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
    all you who love^(F) her;
rejoice greatly with her,
    all you who mourn^(G) over her.
¹¹ For you will nurse^(H) and be satisfied
    at her comforting breasts;^(I)
you will drink deeply
    and delight in her overflowing abundance.”^(J)

“I will extend peace^(K) to her like a river,^(L)
    and the wealth^(M) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried^(N) on her arm
    and dandled on her knees.
¹³ As a mother comforts her child,^(O)
    so will I comfort^(P) you;
    and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”