Isaiah 49:18-22

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ Look up, and look around.
They all gather together; they come to you.^(A)
As I live”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“you will wear all your children^[a] as jewelry,
and put them on as a bride does.
¹⁹ For your waste and desolate places
and your land marked by ruins
will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,^(B)
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰ Yet as you listen, the children
that you have been deprived of will say,
‘This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.’^(C)
21 Then you will say within yourself,
‘Who fathered these for me?
I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,
exiled and wandering—
but who brought them up?
See, I was left by myself—
but these, where did they come from?’” ^[b]

Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and raise my banner to the peoples.^(D)
They will bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.^(E)