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19 Enemies have destroyed your land.
    Its towns have become heaps of stones.
But soon your land will be too small for all your people to live in.
    The enemies who destroyed you will be far away from you.
20 The children who were born in a foreign land
    will return to you.
You will hear them say,
    “This place is too small for us.
    Find more room for us to live in.”
21 Then you will think, “Who gave me all these children?
    Who is their father?
I was alone, with no husband.
    They killed my children
    or they took them away to a foreign land.
I could no longer give birth.
    So where did all these children come from?” ’

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19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(A)
    and your land laid waste,(B)
now you will be too small for your people,(C)
    and those who devoured(D) you will be far away.
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.’(E)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?(F)
I was bereaved(G) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.(H)
    Who brought these(I) up?
I was left(J) all alone,(K)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

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