American Standard Version
"Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. "
— Isaiah 49:17, American Standard Version
“Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
“Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.”
“Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.”
“Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.”
“Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.”
“Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.
For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.