16. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;your walls are continually before Me;
17. your builders hurry;your destroyers and those who devastated you shall depart from you.
18. Lift up your eyes and look all around;all these gather themselves together and come to you.As I live, says the Lord,you shall surely put on all of them as ornamentsand bind them on you as a bride does.
19. For your waste and your desolate places,and the land of your destruction,shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.
20. The children whom you shall have, after you have lost the others, shall say again in your ears,“The place is too cramped for me;make room for me that I may dwell here.”
21. Then you shall say in your heart,“Who bore these for me,since I have lost my children and am barren,a captive and a wanderer?And who has brought these up?I was left alone;from where did these come?”
22. Thus says the Lord God: See, I will lift up My hand to the nationsand set up My standard to the peoples;and they shall bring your sons in their arms,and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23. kings shall be your foster fathersand their queens your nursing mothers;they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the groundand lick up the dust of your feet.And you shall know that I am the Lord,for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.
24. Can the prey be taken from the mightyor the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
25. For thus says the Lord: Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,and the prey of the tyrant shall be delivered;for I will contend with him who contends with you,and I will save your sons.
26. I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh,and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine.And all flesh shall knowthat I, the Lord, am your Saviorand your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.