Isaiah 49:18-23

Isaiah 49:18-23

[18] Lift up  thine eyes  round about,  and behold:  all these gather themselves together,  and come  to thee. As I live,  saith  the LORD,  thou shalt surely clothe  thee with them all, as with an ornament,  and bind  them on thee, as a bride  doeth. [19] For thy waste  and thy desolate places,  and the land  of thy destruction,  shall even now be too narrow  by reason of the inhabitants,  and they that swallowed thee up  shall be far away.  [20] The children  which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost  the other, shall say  again in thine ears,  The place  is too strait  for me: give  place  to me that I may dwell.  [21] Then shalt thou say  in thine heart,  Who hath begotten  me these, seeing I have lost my children,  and am desolate,  and removing to and fro?  and who hath brought up  these? Behold, I was left  alone; these, where  had they been? [22] Thus saith  the Lord  GOD,  Behold, I will lift up  mine hand  to the Gentiles,  and set up  my standard  to the people:  and they shall bring  thy sons  in their arms,  and thy daughters  shall be carried  upon their shoulders.  [23] And kings  shall be thy nursing fathers,  and their queens  thy nursing mothers:  they shall bow down  to thee with their face  toward the earth,  and lick up  the dust  of thy feet;  and thou shalt know  that I am the LORD:  for they shall not be ashamed  that wait  for me.