Isaiah 49:14-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her nursing child
and not show mercy to the son from her womb?
Even if these women could forget,
I will never forget you.
¹⁶ Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands.
Your walls are never out of my sight.
¹⁷ Your children^[a] are hurrying back.
Those who destroyed and devastated you will depart from you.
¹⁸ Lift up your eyes all around and see!
All of them are gathered. They are coming to you.
As surely as I live, declares the Lord,
all of them are like jewelry that you will put on.
You will wear them like a bride.

¹⁹ Though your land was wasted and desolate and devastated,
now it will be too small for its inhabitants.
Then those who are swallowing you will be far from you.
²⁰ The children you lost will say this into your ears once again,
“The place is too small for me.
Make room for me so that I can settle there.”
²¹ Then you will say in your heart,
“Who has given birth to these for me?
I had lost my children and could have no more.
I was exiled and divorced.
So who raised these?
I was left all by myself.
Where did these come from?”