Isaiah 49:13-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
    break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord has comforted his people,
    and will have compassion on his suffering ones.

¹⁴ But Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me,
    my Lord has forgotten me.’
¹⁵ Can a woman forget her nursing-child,
    or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.
¹⁶ See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls are continually before me.
¹⁷ Your builders outdo your destroyers,^[a]
    and those who laid you waste go away from you.
¹⁸ Lift up your eyes all around and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
As I live, says the Lord,
    you shall put all of them on like an ornament,
    and like a bride you shall bind them on.

¹⁹ Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.