Isaiah 49:15-23

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you. Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;  your walls are continually before me. Your builders  hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you. Look up, and look around. They all gather together; they come to you.  As I live” — this is the  Lord’s declaration — “you will wear all your children  as jewelry, and put them on as a bride does. For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,  and those who swallowed you up will be far away. Yet as you listen, the children that you have been deprived of will say, ‘This place is too small for me; make room for me so that I may settle.’  Then you will say within yourself, ‘Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering — but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself — but these, where did they come from? ’ ”  This is what the Lord God says: Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my banner to the peoples.  They will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.  Kings will be your guardians and their queens  your nursing mothers.  They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust at your feet.  Then you will know that I am the  Lord;  those who put their hope in me will not be put to shame.