Isaiah 49:12-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

¹³ Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.

¹⁴ And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

¹⁶ Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.

¹⁷ Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

¹⁸ Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.