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16 Look! I’ve inscribed you on the palms of my hands,
    and[a] your walls are forever before me.
17 Your builders[b] are working faster than your destroyers,
    and those who devastated you go away from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around—
    they have all gathered together
        and are coming to you.

“As surely as I live,” says the Lord,
    “you will clothe yourself with all of them like ornaments,
        and tie them on like a bride.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and
  2. Isaiah 49:17 So 1QIsaa Aquila Vulg LXX; MT reads sons