21 And you will say to yourself, Who bore me these while I was bereaved and barren? I was exiled, banished; by whom were these reared? When I was left to myself, where were they?
22 Thus says my Lord Jehovah:
I will lift up my hand to the nations, raise my ensign to the peoples;
and they will bring your sons in their bosoms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down before you, their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust of your feet.
Then shall you know that I am Jehovah, and that they who hope in me are not disappointed.
24 Can the warrior’s spoil be taken from him, or the tyrant’s captives escape free?
25 Yet thus says Jehovah:
...The warrior’s spoil
shall indeed be taken from him,
and the tyrant’s captives escape free:
I myself will contend with your contenders, and I will deliver your children.
26 I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh; they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.
And all flesh shall know that I Jehovah am your Savior, that your Redeemer is the Valiant One of Jacob.