Verse 20
Isaiah 49:20
World English Bible, British Edition
20
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a place to live in.’
Original Language Text
hebrew
ע֚וֹד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְ/אָזְנַ֔יִ/ךְ בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִ/ךְ צַר לִ֥/י הַ/מָּק֖וֹם גְּשָׁ/ה לִּ֥/י וְ/אֵשֵֽׁבָה
English Translation
Still, they will say in your ears, "The sons of your bereavement are too narrow for me; give me space so that I may dwell."
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Chapter 49 Context
1
Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
the LORD has called me from the womb;
from t...
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2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me...
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3
He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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4
But I said, “I have laboured in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the j...
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5
Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
an...
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6
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Ja...
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7
The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom the n...
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8
The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
I have helped you in a day of salvation....
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9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They s...
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10
They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them,
for he who has mercy o...
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11
I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.
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12
Behold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, these from the north and from the west,
and these fr...
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13
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
Break out into singing, mountains!
For the LORD has comforted h...
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14
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Y...
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16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
Your walls are continually before me.
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17
Your children hurry.
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
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18
Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I l...
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19
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now...
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20
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a p...
21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for
me, since I have been bereaved of my c...
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22
The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the
nations,
and lift up my banner to the peop...
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23
Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you...
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24
Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered?
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25
But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be
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and the plunder retrieved f...
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26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
and they will be drunk on their own blood, a...
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