¹⁸ Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather^(A) and come to you.
As surely as I live,^(B)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear^(C) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

⁹ “To me this is like the days of Noah,
    when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.^(A)
So now I have sworn^(B) not to be angry^(C) with you,
    never to rebuke^(D) you again.

“I will extend peace^(A) to her like a river,^(B)
    and the wealth^(C) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried^(D) on her arm
    and dandled on her knees.
¹³ As a mother comforts her child,^(E)
    so will I comfort^(F) you;
    and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

¹⁰ I delight greatly in the Lord;
    my soul rejoices^(A) in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
    and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,^(B)
as a bridegroom adorns his head^(C) like a priest,
    and as a bride^(D) adorns herself with her jewels.

⁷ “For a brief moment^(A) I abandoned^(B) you,
    but with deep compassion^(C) I will bring you back.^(D)

¹² See, they will come from afar^(A)—
    some from the north, some from the west,^(B)
    some from the region of Aswan.^[a]”