en_tn/isa/49/19.md

Yahweh continues speaking to Zion as if it were a person, a widow.

Though you were a waste and desolate

"Though the enemy left you destroyed and empty"

bereavement -

This refers to the time when the Israelites were in exile in Babylon.

The children born during the time of your bereavement

AT: "The children born during the exile" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)