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But Zion said, Jehovah has forsaken me, and, My Lord has forgotten me.

Can a woman forget her suckling child, from pitying the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will surely not forget you.

Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are always before Me.

Your sons hurry; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you.

Lift up your eyes all around and see! They all gather and come to you. As I live, says Jehovah, you shall surely wear all of them as an ornament, and bind them on as a bride.

For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins shall even now be too narrow to live there ; and they who swallow you shall be far away.

The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; come near for me so that I may have place to live.

Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne these to me, for I am bereaved and desolate, turned aside and an exile; who then has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone. From where do these come ?