Isaiah 49:19-21

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁹For your waste and desolate places
and your land marked by ruins—
will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,^(A)
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰Yet as you listen, the children
that you have been deprived of will say,
‘This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.’^(B)
²¹Then you will say within yourself,
‘Who fathered these for me?
I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,
exiled and wandering—
but who brought them up?
See, I was left by myself—
but these, where did they come from?’”^[a]