“And as I live,” saith the Lord,
_“thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all,
_as with an ornament,
_and bind them on even as a bride.“For thy waste and thy desolate places,
_and the land of thy destruction,
_shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants.“And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
“The children whom thou shalt have,
_after thou hast lost the first,
_shall again in thine ears say:
_The place is too strait for me;
_give place to me that I may dwell.”
Then shalt thou say in thine heart:
“Who hath begotten me these,
_seeing I have lost my children,
_and am desolate, a captive,
_and removing to and fro?
_And who hath brought up these?
_Behold, I was left alone;
_these, where have they been?”