Isaiah 49v17-21

Heavenly Father
open our eyes today so that we may see all the ways in which we are not alone by your grace, particularly when we feel alone

[A Message of Hope to God’s people who find themselves in a lonely place - in exile]

¹⁷ Your children hurry. [to return to you - because ….]
    Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
¹⁸ Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
    all these [your children] gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,
    and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
¹⁹ “For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
    and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
²⁰ The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
    ‘This place is too small for me.
    Give me a place to live in.’
²¹ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children
    and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth?
Who has brought these up?
    Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”