17 “Your [a]builders hurry;
Your (A)destroyers and devastators
Will depart from you.
18 (B)Lift up your eyes and look around;
(C)All of them gather together, (D)they come to you.
(E)As I live,” declares the Lord,
“You will surely (F)put on all of them as [b]jewels and bind them on as a bride.
19 “For (G)your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land—
Surely now you will be (H)too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who (I)swallowed you will be far away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 So ancient versions and DSS; M.T. reads sons
  2. Isaiah 49:18 Lit an ornament