20The 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.


In Context

17 Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.

18 Lift up thine eyes round about and behold: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt indeed clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and bind them on as a bride doth.

19 For in thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

20 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.

21 And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder.

Isaiah 49:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, 'This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:20The 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:20The 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

49:20Again do the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me, Come nigh to me — and I dwell.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:20The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.