Isaiah 49:17-21

English Standard Version

¹⁷Your builders make haste;^[a]
    ^(A)your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
¹⁸^(B)Lift up your eyes around and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
^(C)As I live, declares the Lord,
    ^(D)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
    you shall bind them on as a bride does.

¹⁹“Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
^(E)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰^(F)The children of your bereavement
    will yet say in your ears:
^(G)‘The place is too narrow for me;
    make room for me to dwell in.’
²¹Then you will say in your heart:
    ‘Who has borne me these?
^(H)I was bereaved and barren,
    exiled and put away,
    but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
    from where have these come?’”