11. “I will make a highway across the mountainsand prepare a road for my people to travel.
12. My people will come from far away,from the north and the west,and from Aswan in the south.”
13. Sing, heavens! Shout for joy, earth!Let the mountains burst into song!The Lord will comfort his people;he will have pity on his suffering people.
14. But the people of Jerusalem said,“The Lord has abandoned us!He has forgotten us.”
15. So the Lord answers,“Can a woman forget her own babyand not love the child she bore?Even if a mother should forget her child,I will never forget you.
16. Jerusalem, I can never forget you!I have written your name on the palms of my hands.
17. “Those who will rebuild you are coming soon,and those who destroyed you will leave.