14 “Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me,the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast?Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne?Even if mothers were to forget,I could never forget you!
16 Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms;your walls are constantly before me.
17 Your children hurry back,while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.
18 Look all around you!All of them gather to you.As surely as I live,” says the Lord,“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;you will put them on as if you were a bride.
19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;it is desolate and devastated.But now you will be too small to hold your residents,and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavementwill say within your hearing,‘This place is too cramped for us,make room for us so we can live here.’