Isaiah 49:19-21
Lexham English Bible
19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins,[a]
surely now you will be too cramped for your[b] inhabitants,[c]
and those who engulfed you will be far away.
20 Yet the children born when you were bereaved[d] will say in your hearing,[e]
“The place is too cramped for me;
make room[f] for me so that I can dwell.”
21 Then[g] you will say in your heart,
“Who has borne me these?”
And, “I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and thrust away;
so[h] who raised these?
Look at me! I was left alone;
where have these come from?”[i]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “ruin”
- Isaiah 49:19 Literally “cramped by”
- Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “inhabitant”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “of your bereavement”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “ears”
- Isaiah 49:20 Literally “approach”
- Isaiah 49:21 Or “And”
- Isaiah 49:21 Or “and”
- Isaiah 49:21 Literally “these where they”
Isaiah 49:19-21
King James Version
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 the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then 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?
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