Isaiah 49:19

Your land has been ruined and caused to become desolate/abandoned [DOU], but some day it will be filled with people, and those who conquered you will be far away.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you for you to show to people like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!

20The children who were born while you were ◄exiled/in Babylonia► [MET] will return to Jerusalem and say, ‘This city is too small for us; We need more space to live in!’

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Cross References

Psalms 56:1God, be merciful to me because men have harassed me; all day my enemies pursue me.

Proverbs 1:12We will kill them [HYP] and get rid of them completely, just like people who are buried in graves are gone forever. While they are in good health, we will send them to the place where dead people are.

Isaiah 49:8This is also what Yahweh says: “At a time when it pleases me, I will answer your prayers. On the day when you will be rescued from your oppressors, I will help you. I will protect you and enable you to establish an agreement with other nations. And by what you do, I will re-establish your nation of Israel and allow you to live/settle again in your land that was abandoned.

Isaiah 49:25But Yahweh says this: “ Some day, those who have been captured will be freed, and the valuable things that ◄tyrants/cruel men► have snatched from others will be returned, because I will fight against those who fight against you, and I will rescue your children.

Isaiah 54:1Yahweh says, “You people of Jerusalem [MET], start to sing! You who are like [MET] women who have never given birth to children, sing loudly and shout joyfully, because you, who are like [MET] childless women who have been abandoned by their husbands, will soon have more children than women who have never had any children.

Jeremiah 30:16But some day all those who are trying to destroy you will be destroyed; all your enemies will be exiled to other nations. All those who have stolen things from you will have their valuable possessions stolen, and all those who attack you will be attacked.

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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