Isaiah 49:20 “Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This p…”

Isaiah 49:20

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’

American Standard Version

The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

Geneva Bible 1599

The children of thy barennesse shall say againe in thine eares, The place is straict for mee: giue place to me that I may dwell.

Darby Translation

The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me, that I may dwell.

Young's Literal Translation

Again do the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me, Come nigh to me — and I dwell.'

Bible in Basic English

The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

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Cross references

“children”

Isaiah 60:4 Hosea 1:10 Matthew 3:9 Galatians 4:26–28

Isaiah 60:4 · BSB

Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.

Hosea 1:10 · BSB

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘s…

Matthew 3:9 · BSB

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Galatians 4:26–28 · BSB

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

“The place”

Joshua 17:14–16 Isaiah 51:3 2 Kings 6:1 Isaiah 54:1 Isaiah 54:2

Joshua 17:14–16 · BSB

Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”

Isaiah 51:3 · BSB

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and mel…

2 Kings 6:1 · BSB

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

Isaiah 54:1 · BSB

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 54:2 · BSB

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

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