Isaiah 49:19
For 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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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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11 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֤י | ki | for | H3588 → |
| חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ | cha.re.vo.Ta.yikh | waste places your | H2723 → |
| וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ | ve.Sho.me.mo.Ta.yikh | and desolate [places] your | H8074 → |
| וְאֶ֖רֶץ | ve.'E.retz | and [the] land of | H776 → |
| הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְ | ha.ri.su.Teikh | destruction your | H2035 → |
| כִּ֤י | ki | for | H3588 → |
| עַתָּה֙ | 'a.Tah | now | H6258 → |
| תֵּצְרִ֣י | te.tze.Ri | you will be [too] cramped | H3334 → |
| מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב | mi.yo.Shev | for [the] inhabitant[s] | H3427 → |
| וְרָחֲק֖וּ | ve.ra.cha.Ku | and they will be far away | H7368 → |
| מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃ | me.va.le.'A.yikh | [those who] swallowed up you | H1104 → |
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