Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’
King 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.
Holman Bible
that you have been deprived of will say,
‘This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.’
International Standard Version
"The children who are grieving at present will yet say in your hearing, "This place is too crowded for me; make room for me, so I may have a place to live.'
A Conservative Version
The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“The children of your bereavement [those born in captivity] will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me’;
Make room for me that I may live here.
Bible in Basic English
The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Yet shall the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears, The place is strait to me: draw near to me and I shall dwell.
King James 2000
The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me: give a place to me that I may dwell.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yet the children {born when you were bereaved} will say in your {hearing}, "The place is [too] cramped for me; {make room} for me so that I can dwell."
Modern King James verseion
The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; come near to me so that I may dwell.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then the child whom the barren shall bring forth unto thee, shall say in thine ear, "This place is too narrow, sit nigh together, that I may have room."
NET Bible
Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing, 'This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.'
New Heart English Bible
The 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 Emphasized Bible
The children of whom thou wast bereaved shall yet say in thine ears, - Too strait for me, is the place Make room for me that I may settle down.
Webster
The 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.
World English Bible
The 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Again do the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me, Come nigh to me -- and I dwell.'
Themes
Contention » Who the lord contends with
Gentiles/heathen » The gentiles nursing israel
Topics
Interlinear
Shikkuliym
'ozen
Maqowm
Tsar
Nagash
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 49:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Remembers Zion
19
"Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’
Phrases
Cross References
Joshua 17:14-16
Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?"
2 Kings 6:1
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
Isaiah 51:3
For the LORDcomforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
Isaiah 54:1-3
"Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the LORD.
Isaiah 60:4
Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God."
Matthew 3:9
And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
Galatians 4:26-28
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.