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19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins,[a]

surely now you will be too cramped for your[b] inhabitants,[c]
    and those who engulfed you will be far away.

20 Yet the children born when you were bereaved[d] will say in your hearing,[e]

“The place is too cramped for me;
    make room[f] for me so that I can dwell.”

21 Then[g] you will say in your heart,

“Who has borne me these?”
    And, “I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and thrust away;
    so[h] who raised these?
Look at me! I was left alone;
    where have these come from?”[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “ruin”
  2. Isaiah 49:19 Literally “cramped by”
  3. Isaiah 49:19 Hebrew “inhabitant”
  4. Isaiah 49:20 Literally “of your bereavement”
  5. Isaiah 49:20 Literally “ears”
  6. Isaiah 49:20 Literally “approach”
  7. Isaiah 49:21 Or “And”
  8. Isaiah 49:21 Or “and”
  9. Isaiah 49:21 Literally “these where they”