Isaiah 49:13-17

English Standard Version

^13 (A)Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
    break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord ^(B)has comforted his people
    and will have compassion on his afflicted.

¹⁴ But Zion said, ^(C)“The Lord has forsaken me;
    my Lord has forgotten me.”

^15 (D)“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, ^(E)I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls are continually before me.
¹⁷ Your builders make haste;^{[a]
    (F)}your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.