Isaiah 49:20-22

International Standard Version

²⁰ “The children who are grieving at present^[a]
    will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too crowded for me;
    make room for me,
        so I may have a place to live.’
²¹ Then you’ll ask^[b] in your heart,
    ‘Who bore these children for me,
although I was childless and barren,
    and^[c] an exile^[d] and cast aside?
Who^[e] brought these up?
    Look!^[f] For my part I was left all alone;
        but as for these, where have they come from?’

²² “For^[g] this what the Lord^[h] says,
    ‘Watch! I’ll lift up my hand to the nations
and raise my banner to the^[i] peoples.^[j]
    They will bring your sons in their arms,
        and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.’