Isaiah 49:14-21

14But 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.

16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me.

17Your children will come quickly. Your destroyers and devastators will go away from you.

18Lift 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.”

19For 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.

20The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, “The place is too cramped for me! Make room for me to settle in.”

21Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne these for me? Wasn’t I bereaved of my children— barren, an exile and wandering? So who has raised these? Behold, I was left alone— these, where were they?”