16. Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me.
17. Your builders hurry;those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.
18. Look up, and look around.They all gather together; they come to you. As I live” —this is the Lord’s declaration —“you will wear all your children as jewelry,and put them on as a bride does.
19. For your waste and desolate placesand your land marked by ruins —will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20. Yet as you listen, the childrenthat you have been deprived of will say,‘This place is too small for me;make room for me so that I may settle.’