19 For (A)your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land—
Now you will certainly be (B)too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who (C)swallowed you will be far away.
20 The (D)children [a]you lost will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too cramped for me;
Make room for me that I may live here.’
21 Then you will (E)say in your heart,
‘Who has fathered these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And (F)cannot conceive, and I am an (G)exile, and a wanderer?
And who has raised these?
Behold, I was (H)left alone;
[b](I)Where are these from?’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:20 Lit of your bereavement
  2. Isaiah 49:21 Lit These, where are they?

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