Isaiah 49:18-20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ Look up, and look round.
They all gather together; they come to you.^(A)
As I live’ –
this is the Lord’s declaration –
‘you will wear all your children^[a] as jewellery,
and put them on as a bride does.
¹⁹ For your waste and desolate places
and your land marked by ruins
will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,^(B)
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰ Yet as you listen, the children
that you have been deprived of will say,
“This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.”^(C)