Isaiah 49:20

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Summary

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.

Children

The place

General references

Bible References

Children

Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.

But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God

And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

The place

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, There is not room enough for us in the place where we are living under your care;

General references

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.