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20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement
will say within your hearing,
‘This place is too cramped for us,[a]
make room for us so we can live here.’[b]
21 Then you will think to yourself,[c]
‘Who bore these children for me?
I was bereaved and barren,
dismissed and divorced.[d]
Who raised these children?
Look, I was left all alone;
where did these children come from?’”

22 This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“Look I will raise my hand to the nations;
I will raise my signal flag to the peoples.
They will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:20 tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.
  2. Isaiah 49:20 tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”
  3. Isaiah 49:21 tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”
  4. Isaiah 49:21 tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”