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17 Your builders[a] are working faster than your destroyers,
    and those who devastated you go away from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around—
    they have all gathered together
        and are coming to you.

“As surely as I live,” says the Lord,
    “you will clothe yourself with all of them like ornaments,
        and tie them on like a bride.
19 Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places,
    and your devastated land
will now be too crowded for your inhabitants,
    while those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 So 1QIsaa Aquila Vulg LXX; MT reads sons