17. Your children will soon return to you,and the people who defeated you and destroyed you will leave.
18. Look up and look around you.All your children are gathering to return to you.”The Lord says, “As surely as I live,your children will be like jewelsthat a bride wears proudly.
19. “You were destroyed and defeated,and your land was made useless.But now you will have more people than the land can hold,and those people who destroyed you will be far away.
20. Children were born to you while you were sad,but they will say to you,‘This place is too small for us.Give us a bigger place to live.’