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13 Sing, O heavens and be joyful, O earth and break forth into singing, O mountains. For Jehovah has comforted his people and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, Jehovah has forsaken me and the Lord has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. 17 Your sons make haste. Your destroyers and those who made you waste will go forth from you.
18 Lift up your eyes all around and behold. All these gather themselves together and come to you. As I live, says Jehovah, you will surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament and gird yourself with them, like a bride. 19 For, as for your waste and your desolate places and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you will be too narrow for the inhabitants and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The sons of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has fathered these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons and am solitary, an exile and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?
22 The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they will bring your sons in their bosom and your daughters will be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings will be your nursing fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am Jehovah and those who wait for me will not be put to shame.
16 Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. 17 Your sons make haste. Your destroyers and those who made you waste will go forth from you.
18 Lift up your eyes all around and behold. All these gather themselves together and come to you. As I live, says Jehovah, you will surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament and gird yourself with them, like a bride. 19 For, as for your waste and your desolate places and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you will be too narrow for the inhabitants and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The sons of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has fathered these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons and am solitary, an exile and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?
22 The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they will bring your sons in their bosom and your daughters will be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings will be your nursing fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am Jehovah and those who wait for me will not be put to shame.