^{19 Ref} For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

^{20 Ref} The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

^{21 Ref} Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

^{22 Ref} This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.