Isa 43:6, 49:12-26, 54:3, 60:3-14 | ESV | STEP | I will say to the north , Give up , and to the south , Do not withhold ; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth ,

12 ^cBehold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, ^dthese from the north and from the west, ^{▼▼Hebrew from the sea}
and these from the land of Syene.” ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Sinim}
13 ^gSing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord ^hhas comforted his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, ⁱ“The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 ^j“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, ^kI have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
17 Your builders make haste; ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste}
^myour destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 ⁿLift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
^oAs I live, declares the Lord,
^pyou shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
and your devastated land—
^qsurely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 ^rThe children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
^s‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
^tI was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
^uand raise my signal to the peoples;
^vand they shall bring your sons in their arms, ^{▼▼Hebrew in their bosom}
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 ^xKings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
^yWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and ^zlick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
^aathose who wait for me ^abshall not be put to shame.”
24 Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac, Vulgate (see also verse 25); Masoretic Text of a righteous man} be rescued?
25 For thus says the Lord:
^ad“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26 ^aeI will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk ^afwith their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that ^agI am the Lord your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah 54:3

3 ^ahFor you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.

Isaiah 60:3-14

3 ^aiAnd nations shall come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 ^ajLift up your eyes all around, and see;
they all gather together, they come to you;
^akyour sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
5 Then you shall see and ^albe radiant;
your heart shall thrill and exult, ^{▼▼Hebrew your heart shall tremble and grow wide}
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
^anthe wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6 A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of ^aoMidian and ^apEphah;
all those from ^aqSheba shall come.
^arThey shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of ^asKedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of ^atNebaioth shall minister to you;
^authey shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
^avand I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and ^awlike doves to their windows?
9 For ^axthe coastlands shall hope for me,
^aythe ships of Tarshish first,
^azto bring your children from afar,
their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because ^bahe has made you beautiful.
10 ^bbForeigners shall build up your walls,
and ^bctheir kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 ^bdYour gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
^bethat people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
12 ^bfFor the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 ^bgThe glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and ^bhthe pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 ^biThe sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
^bjand all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
^bkthey shall call you the City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.