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)
23 Kings^(L) will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.^(M)
They will bow down^(N) before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust^(O) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;^(P)
    those who hope^(Q) in me will not be disappointed.^(R)”

²⁴ Can plunder be taken from warriors,^(S)
    or captives be rescued from the fierce^[a]?

“Yes, captives^(T) will be taken from warriors,^(U)
    and plunder retrieved from the fierce;^(V)
I will contend with those who contend with you,^(W)
    and your children I will save.^(X)
26 I will make your oppressors^(Y) eat^(Z) their own flesh;
    they will be drunk on their own blood,^(AA) as with wine.
Then all mankind will know^(AB)
    that I, the Lord, am your Savior,^(AC)
    your Redeemer,^(AD) the Mighty One of Jacob.^(AE)”