19. Yes, your land lies in ruins;it is desolate and devastated.But now you will be too small to hold your residents,and those who devoured you will be far away.
20. Yet the children born during your time of bereavementwill say within your hearing,‘This place is too cramped for us,make room for us so we can live here.’
21. Then you will think to yourself,‘Who bore these children for me?I was bereaved and barren,dismissed and divorced.Who raised these children?Look, I was left all alone;where did these children come from?’”
22. This is what the sovereign Lord says:“Look I will raise my hand to the nations;I will raise my signal flag to the peoples.They will bring your sons in their armsand carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23. Kings will be your children’s guardians;their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to youand they will lick the dirt on your feet.Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
24. Can spoils be taken from a warrior,or captives be rescued from a conqueror?
25. Indeed,” says the Lord,“captives will be taken from a warrior;spoils will be rescued from a conqueror.I will oppose your adversaryand I will rescue your children.
26. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine.Then all humankind will recognize thatI am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.”