18aLift 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 onyou 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.
20aThe 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?’ ”
22aThus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My1 standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their1 arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23aKings 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.”
24aShall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives1 of the righteous be delivered?
25 But thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.
Genesis 49:22 and Isaiah 49:20 hint very strongly at Israel's colonization of other lands because of burgeoning population and prosperity. Though many nations have colonized other lands in the past, only the nations of northwestern Europe have done it to any great extent.
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