17 Your builders make haste;[a]
    (A)your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 (B)Lift up your eyes around and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
(C)As I live, declares the Lord,
    (D)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
    you shall bind them on as a bride does.

19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
(E)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:17 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste

17 Your children hasten back,
    and those who laid you waste(A) depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
    all your children gather(B) and come to you.
As surely as I live,(C)” declares the Lord,
    “you will wear(D) them all as ornaments;
    you will put them on, like a bride.

19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(E)
    and your land laid waste,(F)
now you will be too small for your people,(G)
    and those who devoured(H) you will be far away.

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