“In the time of my favor^(A) I will answer you,
    and in the day of salvation I will help you;^(B)
I will keep^(C) you and will make you
    to be a covenant for the people,^(D)
to restore the land^(E)
    and to reassign its desolate inheritances,^(F)

¹⁷ Your children hasten back,
    and those who laid you waste^(A) depart from you.
¹⁸ Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather^(B) and come to you.
As surely as I live,^(C)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear^(D) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

¹⁹ “Though you were ruined and made desolate^(E)
    and your land laid waste,^(F)
now you will be too small for your people,^(G)
    and those who devoured^(H) you will be far away.
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.’^(I)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?^(J)
I was bereaved^(K) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.^(L)
    Who brought these^(M) up?
I was left^(N) all alone,^(O)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

“See, I will beckon to the nations,
    I will lift up my banner^(Q) to the peoples;
they will bring^(R) your sons in their arms
    and carry your daughters on their hips.^(S)
23 Kings^(T) will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.^(U)
They will bow down^(V) before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust^(W) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;^(X)
    those who hope^(Y) in me will not be disappointed.^(Z)”