18 Look about and see,they are all gathering and coming to you.As I live—oracle of the Lord—you shall don them as jewels,bedeck yourself like a bride.
19 Though you were waste and desolate,a land of ruins,Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants,while those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The children of whom you were bereftshall yet say in your hearing,“This place is too narrow for me,make room for me to live in.”
21 You shall ask yourself:“Who has borne me these,when I was bereft and barren?Exiled and repudiated,who has reared them?I was left all alone;where then do these come from?”
22 Thus says the Lord God:See, I will lift up my hand to the nations,and to the peoples raise my signal;They shall bring your sons in their arms,your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 Kings shall be your guardians,their princesses your nursemaids;Face to the ground, they shall bow down before youand lick the dust at your feet.Then you shall know that I am the Lord,none who hope in me shall be ashamed.
24 Can plunder be taken from a warrior,or captives rescued from a tyrant?