Isaiah 49:19-21

Expanded Bible

¹⁹ “You were destroyed and defeated,
    and your land was made ·useless [desolate].
But now you will have more people than the land can hold,
    and those people who ·destroyed [devoured] you will be far away.
²⁰ The children ·born to you while you were sad [^Lof your bereavement]
    will say to you,
‘This place is too small for us.
    Give us a bigger place to live.’
²¹ Then you will say ·to yourself [^Lin your heart],
    ‘Who ·gave me all these children [bore me these]?
I was ·sad [bereaved] and ·lonely [barren],
    ·defeated [rejected] and ·separated from my people [exiled].
    So who reared these children?
I was left all alone.
    Where did all these children come from?’”