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"Lift up your eyes and lookaround; All of them gather together, they come to you. As I live," declares the LORD, "You will surelyput on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.
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"For your waste and desolate places and your destroyedland - Surelynow you will be toocramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.
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"The children of whom you were bereaved will yetsay in your ears, 'The place is too cramped for me; Makeroom for me that I may live here.'
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"Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begottenthese for me, Since I have beenbereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has rearedthese? Behold, I was leftalone; From where did these come?' "
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Thussays the LordGOD, "Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My standard to the peoples; And they will bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.
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"Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will bowdown to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those whohopefullywait for Me will not be put to shame.
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Surely, thussays the LORD, "Even the captives of the mightyman will be taken away, And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; For I will contend with the onewhocontends with you, And I will save your sons.
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"I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And they will becomedrunk with their own blood as with sweetwine; And allflesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the MightyOne of Jacob."