Isaiah 49:19-21

International Children’s Bible

¹⁹ “You were destroyed and defeated.
    Your land was made useless.
But now you will have more people than the land can hold.
    And those people who destroyed you will be far away.
²⁰ Children were born to you while you were sad.
    But they 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,
    ‘Who gave me all these children?
I was sad and lonely.
    I was defeated and away from my people.
    So who reared these children?
I was left all alone.
    Where did all these children come from?’”