20 The children born during your bereavement
    will yet say in your hearing,
“This place is too small for us;
    give us more space to live in.”
21 Then you will say in your heart,
    “Who bore me these?
I was bereaved and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.
    Who brought these up?
I was left all alone,
    but these – where have they come from?”’

22 This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

‘See, I will beckon to the nations,
    I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
they will bring your sons in their arms
    and carry your daughters on their hips.

Read full chapter