Isaiah 49:17-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷Your builders outstrip your destroyers,
    and those who laid you waste go forth from you.
¹⁸Lift up your eyes round about and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
As I live, says the Lord,
    you shall put them all on as an ornament,
    you shall bind them on as a bride does.

¹⁹“Surely your waste and your desolate places
and your devastated land—
surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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