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13 Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.
14 But* Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!"
15 Can a woman forget her suckling, refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but* I, I will not forget you!
16 Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart* from you.
18 Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. ⌊As surely as I live⌋,* ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament, and you shall bind them on like a bride.
19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins,*
surely now you will be ⌊too cramped for your⌋* inhabitants,* and those who engulfed you will be far away. 20 Yet the children ⌊born when you were bereaved⌋* will say in your ⌊hearing⌋,*
"The place is too cramped for me; ⌊make room⌋* for me so that I can dwell." 21 Then* you will say in your heart,
"Who has borne me these?" And, "I was bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so* who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; ⌊where have these come from⌋?"* 22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
"Look! I will lift my hand up to the nations, and I will raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.* 23 And kings shall be your ⌊guardians⌋,* and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, ⌊faces⌋* to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then* you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed. 24 Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteous* person be rescued? 25 But thus says Yahweh:
"Indeed a captive of the mighty shall be taken, and the war-booty of the tyrant shall be rescued, for* I myself will dispute with your opponent, and I myself will save your children. 26 And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. Then* all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob."
surely now you will be ⌊too cramped for your⌋* inhabitants,* and those who engulfed you will be far away. 20 Yet the children ⌊born when you were bereaved⌋* will say in your ⌊hearing⌋,*
"The place is too cramped for me; ⌊make room⌋* for me so that I can dwell." 21 Then* you will say in your heart,
"Who has borne me these?" And, "I was bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so* who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; ⌊where have these come from⌋?"* 22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
"Look! I will lift my hand up to the nations, and I will raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.* 23 And kings shall be your ⌊guardians⌋,* and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, ⌊faces⌋* to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then* you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed. 24 Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteous* person be rescued? 25 But thus says Yahweh:
"Indeed a captive of the mighty shall be taken, and the war-booty of the tyrant shall be rescued, for* I myself will dispute with your opponent, and I myself will save your children. 26 And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. Then* all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob."