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14 And Zion will say, Jehovah forsook me, and the Lord forgot me.
15 Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.
16 Behold, upon the palms I engraved thee; thy walls before me continually.
17 Thy sons hastened; they destroying thee and laying thee waste shall come forth from thee.
18 Lift up round about thine eyes and see: they all gathered themselves together, they came to thee. I live, says Jehovah, thou shalt put them all on as an ornament, and thou shalt bind them as a bride.
19 For thy wastes and thy desolations, and the land of thy destruction, for now it shall press for the inhabitants, and they swallowing thee up were far away.
20 Yet shall the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears, The place is strait to me: draw near to me and I shall dwell.
21 And thou saidst in thy heart, Who begat these to me, and I being bereaved and barren, an exile, and departing? and who caused these to grow? Behold, I was left alone; they, where were they?
22 Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise up my signal: and they brought thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be lifted up upon the shoulder.
23 And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.