¹⁸ Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather^(A) and come to you.
As surely as I live,^(B)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear^(C) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

²⁰ The children born during your bereavement
    will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
    give us more space to live in.’^(A)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?^(B)
I was bereaved^(C) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.^(D)
    Who brought these^(E) up?
I was left^(F) all alone,^(G)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

“See, I will beckon to the nations,
    I will lift up my banner^(I) to the peoples;
they will bring^(J) your sons in their arms
    and carry your daughters on their hips.^(K)