| Isaiah 49:20 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, 'The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.' (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The children taken from you will say to you, "This place is too crowded for me. Make room for me to live here."(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | 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. |
| ASV: | 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. |
| BBE: | 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. |
| DBY: | 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. |
| ERV: | 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. |
| JPS: | 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.' |
| WBS: | The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thy ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell. |
| WEB: | The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell. |
| YLT: | 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.' |
| Isaiah 49:20 Cross References |
| XREF: | Isaiah 54:1 "Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman," says the LORD. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 49:20 The children - Those Gentiles which shall be begotten by thee, when thou shalt be deprived of thine own natural children, when the generality of the Jews cut themselves off from God. |
| MHC: | 49:18-23 Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to be a comfort to her. There are times when the church is desolate and few in number; yet its desolations shall not last for ever, and God will repair them. God can raise up friends for returning Israelites, even among Gentiles. They shall bring their children, and make them thy children. Let all deal tenderly and carefully with young converts and beginners in religion. Princes shall protect the church. It shall appear that God is the sovereign Lord of all. And those who in the exercise of faith, hope, and patience, wait on God for the fulfilment of his promises, shall never be confounded. |
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