Isaiah 49:19-22

Amplified Bible

¹⁹
“For your ruins and desolate places and your land [once the scene] of destruction—
Certainly now [in the coming years] will be too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who once engulfed you will be far away.
²⁰
“The children of your bereavement [those born in captivity] will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me’;
Make room for me that I may live here.
²¹
“Then [Zion], you will say in your heart,
‘Who has borne me these children,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And am barren, an exile and a wanderer?
And who has reared these?
Indeed, I was left alone;
^[a]From where then did these children come?’”

²²This is what the Lord God says,

“Listen carefully, I will lift up My hand to the [Gentile] nations
And set up My banner to the peoples;
And they will bring your sons in the fold of their garments,
And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 49:21 Lit These, where are they.

Isaiah 49:19-22

New International Version

¹⁹“Though you were ruined and made desolate^(A)
    and your land laid waste,^(B)
now you will be too small for your people,^(C)
    and those who devoured^(D) you will be far away.
²⁰The children born during your bereavement
    will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
    give us more space to live in.’^(E)
²¹Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?^(F)
I was bereaved^(G) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.^(H)
    Who brought these^(I) up?
I was left^(J) all alone,^(K)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

²²This is what the Sovereign Lord^(L) says:

“See, I will beckon to the nations,
I will lift up my banner^(M) to the peoples;
they will bring^(N) your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their hips.^(O)

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Isaiah 49:19-22

King James Version

¹⁹For 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.

²⁰The 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.

²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

²²Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

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