Isaiah 49:20-22

Contemporary English Version

²⁰ Jerusalem is a woman
    whose children were born
while she was in deep sorrow^[a]
    over the loss of her husband.
Now those children
will come and seek room
    in the crowded city,
²¹ and Jerusalem will ask,
    “Am I really their mother?
How could I have given birth
when I was still mourning
    in a foreign land?
Who raised these children?
Where have they come from?”

^22 (A) The Lord God says:
“I will soon give a signal
    for the nations
to return your sons
and your daughters
    to the arms of Jerusalem.