13. Shout for joy, heavens! Rejoice, earth! Break forth into ringing shouts, O mountains! For Adonai has comforted His people and has compassion on His afflicted.”
14. But Zion said: “Adonai has forsaken me, Adonai has forgotten me.”
15. “Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
16. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me.
17. Your children will come quickly. Your destroyers and devastators will go away from you.
18. Lift up your eyes around and see: all of them will gather and come to you.” “As I live” —it is Adonai’s declaration— “you will wear them all as jewelry and bind them on like a bride.”
19. For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land will now be surely too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.