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Isaiah 49:20

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20Yet the children born when you were bereavedv will say in your hearing,w

“The place is too cramped for me;

make roomx for me so that I can dwell.”

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Footnotes

  1. vLiterally “of your bereavement”
  2. wLiterally “ears”
  3. xLiterally “approach”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The children of your bereavement

will yet say in your ears:

‘The place is too narrow for me;

make room for me to dwell in.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The 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.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Yet as you listen, the children

that you have been deprived of will say,

‘This place is too small for me;

make room for me so that I may settle.’

NLTNew Living Translation

The generations born in exile will return and say,

‘We need more room! It’s crowded here!’

KJV 1900King James Version

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.