20 ^aThe children you will have,
^bAfter 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?’ ”

23 ^aKings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And ^blick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
^cFor they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.” ‡

24 ^aShall the prey be taken from the mighty,
Or the captives¹ of the righteous be delivered?  ‡