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Isaiah 49:17
Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.
Isaiah 49:17 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Isaiah 49:17 in other translations
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
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In context
14 And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.
17 Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.
18 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.
19 For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.
20 The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
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