15 “Can^a a woman forget her nursing child,
¹And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
^bYet I will not forget you. ‡

16 See, ^aI have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me. ‡

18 ^aLift up your eyes, look around and see;
All these gather together and come to you.
As I live,” says the Lord,
“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all ^bas an ornament,
And bind them on you as a bride does. ‡

19 “For your waste and desolate places,
And the land of your destruction,
^aWill even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away. ‡