20. The children you will have,After you have lost the others,Will say again in your ears,‘The place is too small for me;Give me a place where I may dwell.’
21. Then you will say in your heart,‘Who has begotten these for me,Since I have lost my children and am desolate,A captive, and wandering to and fro?And who has brought these up?There I was, left alone;But these, where were they?’ ”
22. Thus says the Lord God:“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,And set up My standard for the peoples;They shall bring your sons in their arms,And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23. Kings shall be your foster fathers,And their queens your nursing mothers;They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,And lick up the dust of your feet.Then you will know that I am the Lord,For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”
24. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,Or the captives of the righteous be delivered?