Isaiah 49:19
in Isaiah 49For 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Isaiah 49
Commentary
10 notes on this verseThis means that he is teaching here about the ones who were swarming and absorbing it, those who had taken it over. For almost like wild beasts they had reduced and absorbed it. He shows here that the number of those called are so many that they are without number. For his children, it says, that you have lost have pleaded in your ear, "Make room for me."
This site's exposition
Your builders hasten back
on Isaiah 49:17-21
“Your builders hasten back” while “your destroyers and wreckers depart from you”, and the ruined land “will now indeed be too small for your people”. Zion is astonished at the increase. The numbers outrun anything she counted on when she said the LORD had forsaken her.
This site's exposition
too small for your people
Barnes notes your ravaged land is in Hebrew the land of your destruction, a noun doing the work of an adjective, as in Psalm 2:6. The land lay desolate. Cyril pictures those who devoured it as wild beasts, who depart far away and leave the desolate places to her children.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 14 and following) And Zion said: The Lord has abandoned me, and the Lord has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her nursing child, so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb? Even if she forgets, I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are always before my eyes. Your builders have come, and those who destroyed and devastated you will depart from you. Lift up your eyes all around and see; all these have gathered together, they have come to you.
The Medieval Church1 voice
And he shows that it will be filled with inhabitants: for your deserts, as to inhabitants, and your desolate places, as to those who cultivate the land, and the land of your destruction, as to the walls that were destroyed: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Thy people shall be numerous, and there shall be no stranger, no enemy, among them." Thus the kingdom of God among men, which had been impoverished and almost depopulated, partly by the corruptions of the Jewish church and partly by the abominations of the Gentile world, was again peopled and enriched by the setting up of the Christian church, and by its graces and glories.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
Thy waste places - Thy own land, whereof divers parts lie waste for want of people to possess them. Land of destruction - Which before was desolate and destroyed.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
A ratification of the prophecy of the Jews' release out of Babylon, which was to be the figure and type of all these blessings,,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
For thy waste and thy desolate places - Thy land over which ruin has been spread, and ever which the exile nation mourns. And the land of thy destruction - That is, thy land laid in ruins. The construction is not uncommon where a noun is used to express the sense of an adjective. Thus in Psa 2:6, the Hebrew phrase (margin) is correctly rendered ‘my holy hill.’ Here the sense is, that their entire country had been so laid waste as to be a land of desolation.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֤י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ | charevotayikh | waste places your | H2723 → | 42 times |
| וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ | veshomemotayikh | and desolate [places] your | H8074 → | 86 times |
| וְאֶ֖רֶץ | veeretz | and [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְ | harisuteikh | destruction your | H2035 → | |
| כִּ֤י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| עַתָּה֙ | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| תֵּצְרִ֣י | tetzeri | you will be [too] cramped | H3334 → | |
| מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב | miyoshev | for [the] inhabitant[s] | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| וְרָחֲק֖וּ | verachaku | and they will be far away | H7368 → | 57 times |
| מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃ | mevaleayikh | [those who] swallowed up you | H1104 → | 49 times |
כִּ֤יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙waste places your
charevotayikhH2723 →42 times
וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְand desolate [places] your
veshomemotayikhH8074 →86 times
וְאֶ֖רֶץand [the] land of
veeretzH776 →2504 times
הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְdestruction your
harisuteikhH2035 →
כִּ֤יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
עַתָּה֙now
ʾatahH6258 →433 times
תֵּצְרִ֣יyou will be [too] cramped
tetzeriH3334 →
מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔בfor [the] inhabitant[s]
miyoshevH3427 →1079 times
וְרָחֲק֖וּand they will be far away
verachakuH7368 →57 times
מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃[those who] swallowed up you
mevaleayikhH1104 →49 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 51:3For 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…
it leads to
- Isaiah 49:13
Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Isaiah 52:9
Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- Jeremiah 31:12–14
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and…
- Jeremiah 33:11–13
the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of…
- Isaiah 49:13
Through
Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.
it leads to
- Hosea 11:11
They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
- Zechariah 8:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.
- Jeremiah 50:19
I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
- Hosea 11:11
Where this verse is studied
About Isaiah
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Cyril of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 4:4.49:19-21; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.