Zion's Complaint and God's Assurance

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"But Tziyon says, 'ADONAI has abandoned me, Adonai has forgotten me.'

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Can a woman forget her child at the breast, not show pity on the child from her womb? Even if these were to forget, I would not forget you.

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I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, your walls are always before me."

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Your children are coming quickly, your destroyers and plunderers are leaving and going.

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Raise your eyes, and look around: they are all gathering and coming to you. ADONAI swears: "As surely as I am alive, you will wear them all like jewels, adorn yourself with them like a bride."

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For your desolate places and ruins and your devastated land will be too cramped for those living in it; your devourers will be far away.

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The day will come when the children born when you were mourning will say to you, "This place is too cramped for me! Give me room, so I can live!"

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Then you will ask yourself, "Who fathered these for me? I've been mourning my children, alone, as an exile, wandering to and fro; so who has raised these? I was left alone, so where have these come from?"

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Adonai ELOHIM answers: "I am beckoning to the nations, raising my banner for the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

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Kings will be your foster-fathers, their princesses your nurses. They will bow to you, face toward the earth, and lick the dust on your feet. Then you will know that I am ADONAI - those who wait for me will not be sorry."

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