Isaiah 49:20 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 49:20

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Third, he foretells the multitude of its inhabitants: the children of your barrenness, that is, those who were born when they believed you were barren, emptied of inhabitants, below: enlarge the place of your tent (Isa 54:2).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 4:4.49:19-21 (444)

This 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."

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,.... Which "other lost" are not the Jews, the broken branches, rejected and cut off for unbelief; and the "children after" them not the Gentiles converted, which took their place; but "the other" are such who have been destroyed by the Heathen persecutions, and especially by the antichristian cruelties; and the "children after", the great numbers of converts upon the fall of antichrist.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God will repair his church's losses and secure to himself a seed to serve him in it. It is promised to the Jews, after their return, that Jerusalem shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets, Zech. viii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The children which thou shalt have - The increase of the population shall be so great. After thou hast lost the other - Hebrew, ‘The sons of thy widowhood.’ That is, after thou hast lost those that have been killed in the wars, and those that have died in captivity in a distant land, there shall be again a great increase as if they were given to a widowed mother.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ע֚וֹד	od	yet	H5750 →
יֹאמְר֣וּ	yo.me.Ru	they will say	H559 →
בְאָזְנַ֔יִךְ	ve.'a.ze.Na.yikh	in ears your	H241 →
בְּנֵ֖י	be.Nei	[the] children of	H1121 →
שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ	shi.ku.La.yikh	bereavement<s> your	H7923 →
צַר־	tzar-	it is cramped	H6862 →
לִ֥י	li	for me
הַמָּק֖וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
גְּשָׁה־	ge.shah-	draw near !	H5066 →
לִּ֥י	li	for me
וְאֵשֵֽׁבָה׃	ve.'e.She.vah	so let me dwell	H3427 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 6:18
  And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- Galatians 4:6–7
  And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- John 1:12
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Romans 9:25–28
  As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
- 1 Peter 2:9–10
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Through
Isaiah 51:3
For 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…
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.
Through
2 Kings 6:1
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
leads to
- 2 Kings 2:3
  Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do…
- Isaiah 54:2–3
  “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah