14. “Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me,the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
15. Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast?Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne?Even if mothers were to forget,I could never forget you!
16. Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms;your walls are constantly before me.
17. Your children hurry back,while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.
18. Look all around you!All of them gather to you.As surely as I live,” says the Lord,“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;you will put them on as if you were a bride.
19. Yes, your land lies in ruins;it is desolate and devastated.But now you will be too small to hold your residents,and those who devoured you will be far away.