17 Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you. 18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride. 19 For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away. 20 Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’ 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
Isaiah 49:17–21
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