NET Bible
"Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart."
— Isaiah 49:17, NET Bible
“Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
“Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. ”
“Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.”
“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.”
The Lord Remembers Zion“Zion said,‘The LORD has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.’
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.
Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the LORD,“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.
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.
Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing,‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’