Isaiah 49:18-23

18“Raise your eyes and look around;

All of them gather together, they come to you.

As I live,” declares the Lord,

“You will certainly put them all on as jewelry and bind them on as a bride.

19“For your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land—

Now you will certainly be too cramped for the inhabitants,

And those who swallowed you will be far away.

20“The children you lost will yet say in your ears,

‘The place is too cramped for me;

Make room for me that I may live here.’

21“Then you will say in your heart,

‘Who has fathered these for me,

Since I have been bereaved of my children

And cannot conceive, and I am an exile, and a wanderer?

And who has raised these?

Behold, I was left alone;

Where are these from?’ ”

²²This is what the Lord God says:

“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations

And set up My flag to the peoples;

And they will bring your sons in their arms,

And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

23“Kings will be your guardians,

And their princesses your nurses.

They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground

And lick the dust from your feet;

And you will know that I am the Lord;

Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.