Isaiah 49:14-23

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14.	Said Tsiyon: “Abandoned I by Yahweh and Adonay has forgotten me.”	wattô’mer tsîyyôwn ‘^azâbanîy YHVH wa’dônây sh^ekhêchânˆy
15.	“Can she forget, a woman her breast-feeding child, nurture-feeling for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, surely I will never forget.	h^athish^ekâch ’ishshâh ‘ûlâh mêrachêm ben-bit^enâh gam-êlleh thish^ekach^enâh w^e’ânôkhîy lô’ ’esh^ekâchên
16.	See, upon my palms you are cut deep, your walls in front of me continually	hên ‘al-kappayim chaqqôthîykh chôwmôthayikh neg^edîy tâmîyd
17.	Hastening back your sons - those who threw you down and desolated you far from you are gone -	mih^arû bânâyikh m^ehâr^eçayikh ûmach^arîybayikh mimmêkh yêtsê’û
18.	lift round about your eyes and see all of them gathered and coming to you. Living am I! This is the oracle of Yahweh, that all of them like ornaments will clothe you and you will bind them on like an entering bride.	s^e’îy-çâbîyb ‘êynayikh ûr^e’îy kullâm niqb^etsû bâ’û-lâkh chay-’ânîy n^e’um-YHVH kîy kullâm kâ‘^adîy thil^ebâshîy ûth^eqashsh^erîym kakkallâh
19.	For your desolate and desecrated places and the land of your overthrow are now too cramped for dwelling, and going far distant are your dominators.	kîy châr^ebôthayikh w^eshôm^emôthayikh w^e’erets h^ariçuthêkh kîy ‘attâh têtsrîy mîyyôwshêb w^erâch^aqû m^eball‘âyikh
20.	Moreover they will say in your hearing - the children of your childlessness - ‘Cramped for me this place, make way for me and I will return’.	‘ôwd yô’m^erû b^e’âz^enayikh b^enêy shikkulâyikh tsar-lîy hammâqôwm g^eshâh-lîy w^e’êshêbâh
21.	And you will say in your heart, ‘Who birthed for me these? - and I childless and barren, exposed then thrust aside - and these, who helped them grow? See, I was left lone - these, where were they?’	w^e’âmart^e bil^ebâbêkh mîy yâlad-lîy ’eth-’êlleh wa’^anîy sh^ekhûlâh w^egalmûdâh gôlâh w^eçûrâh w^e’êlleh mîy giddêl hên ’ânîy nish^e’ar^etîy l^ebaddîy ’êlleh ’êyphôh hêm
22.	Look who speaks! Adonay Yahweh! ‘See now, I lift up to the nations my hand and to the peoples my standard raise up, and they will bring back your sons in their bosom and your daughters on their shoulders lifted high.	kôh-’âmar ’^adônay YHVH hinneh ’essâ’ ’el-gôwyim yâdîy w^eel-‘ammîym ’ârîym niççîy w^ehêbîyy’û bânayikh b^echôtsen ûb^enôthayikh ‘al-kâthêph tinnâse’nâh
23.	Then there will be kings as your patrons and great ladies as your nurse-maids. Faces to the earth they will prostrate themselves to you and the dust at your feet they will lick. Then you will know that I indeed am Yahweh who will never put to shame those who wait for me.	w^ehâyû m^elâkhîym ’ôm^enayikh w^esârôwthêyhem mênîyqôthayikh ’appîym ’erets yish^etach^awû lâkh wa‘^aphar rag^elayikh y^elachêkhû w^eyâda‘at^e kîy ’^anîy YHVH ’^asher lô’-yêb^eshû qôwây

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