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17 Your children hasten;
    your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart[a] from you.
18 Lift your eyes up all around and see;
    all of them gather; they come to you.
As surely as I live,[b]
    declares[c] 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,[d]

surely now you will be too cramped for your[e] inhabitants,[f]
    and those who engulfed you will be far away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 Or “move away”
  2. Isaiah 49:18 Literally “Life I”
  3. Isaiah 49:18 Literally “declaration of”
  4. Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “ruin”
  5. Isaiah 49:19 Literally “cramped by”
  6. Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “inhabitant”

17 Your children hasten back,
    and those who laid you waste(A) depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather(B) and come to you.
As surely as I live,(C)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear(D) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(E)
    and your land laid waste,(F)
now you will be too small for your people,(G)
    and those who devoured(H) you will be far away.

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