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17 Your children will hurry back.
    Those who destroyed you and laid waste to you will leave you.
18 Look up, look around, and watch!
    All of your children are gathering together and returning to you.
    “I solemnly swear as I live,” declares Yahweh,
    “you will wear all of them like jewels
        and display them on yourself as a bride would.”

19 Though you are destroyed and demolished and your land is in ruins,
    you will be too crowded for your people now.
        Those who devoured you will be long gone.

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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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