Isaiah 49:19

Translations

Modern

For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Traditional

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Literal

For your ruins and desolate places, and the land of your devastation, surely now will be narrow for its dweller, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Latin

…quia deserta tua, et solitudines tuæ, et terra ruinæ tuæ, nunc angusta erunt præ habitatoribus; et longe fugabuntur qui absorbebant te.

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Hebrew

English

For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Notes

Isaiah 49:19–21

The population growth would extend beyond Israel to include people from other nations who turn to the Lord (see Isaiah 56:6–8; Revelation 7:9).
make room: The increased population would need space far beyond Israel's traditional borders (see also Zechariah 2:4).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

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