Isaiah 49:20

The children born during the time of your bereavement will say in your hearing, 1 'The place is too cramped for us, make room for us, so we may live here.' 1

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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

19Though you were a waste and desolate, a land that was in ruins, 1 now you will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who devoured you will be far away. 1

21Then you will ask yourself, 'Who has borne these children for me? 1 I was bereaved and barren, exiled and divorced. Who has raised these children? 1 Look, I was left all alone; where did these come from?'” 1

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Cross References

Joshua 17:14Then the descendants of Joseph said to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given us only one assignment of land and one portion for an inheritance, since we are a people great in number, and all along Yahweh has blessed us?”

Isaiah 51:3Yes, Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; 1 her wilderness he made like Eden, and her desert plains beside the Jordan River valley like the garden of Yahweh; 1 joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing. 1

Isaiah 60:4Look all around and see. They all gather themselves together and come to you. 1 Your sons will come from far, and your daughters will be carried in their arms. 1

Matthew 3:9Do not think of saying among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham even out of these stones.

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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