Isa 49:17-23 | ESV | STEP | Your builders make haste ; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

h[See ver. 19 above]

i[See ver. 20 above]

j ch. 11:12

k ch. 14:2

m ch. 60:3, 16

n ch. 60:14

o Ps. 72:9; [Mic. 7:17]

p[ch. 40:31]

q Ps. 25:3; Joel 2:27

Isaiah 49:17-23

17 Your builders make haste; ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste}
^byour destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 ^cLift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
^dAs I live, declares the Lord,
^eyou 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—
^fsurely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 ^gThe children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
^h‘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?
ⁱI 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,
^jand raise my signal to the peoples;
^kand they shall bring your sons in their arms, ^{▼▼Hebrew in their bosom}
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 ^mKings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
ⁿWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and ^olick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
^pthose who wait for me ^qshall not be put to shame.”