Isaiah 49:20

Furthermore, the Bnei Shikkulayich (the Children of thy Bereavement, i.e., the sons born while the Mother was bereaved of other children lost) 1 shall say again in thine oznayim: 1 The makom is too cramped for me; 1 geshah (fall back, make room, give place) to me that I may dwell. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

In Context

19For thy ruins and thy desolate places, 1 and the eretz of thy devastation, 1 shall even now be too narrow for the inhabitants, + 49:19 of Tziyon returned from the Golus 1 and they that devoured thee shall be far away. 1

21Then shalt thou say in thine lev: 1 Who hath begotten me these, 1 seeing I am shekhulah (bereaved) of my children, and am galmudah (barren, incapable of having children), 1 a captive of the Golus, and thrust away as rejected? 1 So who has reared these? 1 Behold I was left a lone survivor; 1 these, where were they? Where did they come from? 1

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Cross References

Joshua 17:14And the Bnei Yosef spoke unto Yehoshua, saying, Why hast thou given me for a nachalah but one goral and one chevel (portion, lot) to inherit, seeing I am an am rav, forasmuch as Hashem hath blessed me hitherto?

Isaiah 51:3For Hashem shall comfort Tziyon; 1 He will comfort all her ruins; 1 and He will make her midbar like Eden, 1 and her ruins like the Gan (Garden) of Hashem; 1 sasson and simchah shall be found therein, 1 todah, and the kol zimrah (the sound of singing). 1

Isaiah 60:4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; 1 they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; 1 thy banim shall come from afar, 1 and thy banot shall be carried at thy side. 1

Matthew 3:9Do not presume to say to yourselves, We have the yichus (proud lineage), we have the zechut Avot (merit of the Fathers) of Avraham Avinu (our father Abraham). For I say to you that Hashem is able to raise up from these avanim (stones) banim (sons) of Avraham.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:19-24

Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost… Read the whole commentary →

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