17. Your children hasten—your levelers, your destroyersgo forth from you;
18. Look about and see,they are all gathering and coming to you.As I live—oracle of the Lord—you shall don them as jewels,bedeck yourself like a bride.
19. Though you were waste and desolate,a land of ruins,Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants,while those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20. The children of whom you were bereftshall yet say in your hearing,“This place is too narrow for me,make room for me to live in.”
21. You shall ask yourself:“Who has borne me these,when I was bereft and barren?Exiled and repudiated,who has reared them?I was left all alone;where then do these come from?”