Isaiah 49:19

Isaiah 49:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For your waste and desolate places, And the land of your destruction, Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Context of Isaiah 49:19

17Your children will hurry back to you, to build you again. The enemies who destroyed you will go away. 18Look all round you! See all your people as they return together.’ The Lord says, ‘I tell you clearly, as the God who lives, you will be happy with your people. They will make you beautiful again, like a bride with her beautiful jewels. Enemies have destroyed your land. Its towns have become heaps of stones. But soon your land will be too small for all your people to live in. The enemies who destroyed you will be far away from you. 20The children who were born in a foreign land will return to you. You will hear them say, “This place is too small for us. Find more room for us to live in.” 21Then you will think, “Who gave me all these children? Who is their father? I was alone, with no husband. They killed my children or they took them away to a foreign land. I could no longer give birth. So where did all these children come from?” ’

Isaiah 49:19 word by word

כִּ֤י חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ וְאֶ֖רֶץ הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְ כִּ֤י עַתָּה֙ תֵּצְרִ֣י מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב וְרָחֲק֖וּ מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For thy wasteחׇרְבָּהchorbâh · desolationH2723
• and thy desolate placesשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• and the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of thy destructionהֲרִיסוּתhărîysûth · ruinsH2035
• shall even now be too narrowיָצַרyâtsar · be distressedH3334
• by reason of the inhabitantsיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• and they that swallowed thee upבָּלַעbâla‛ · to swallow upH1104
• shall be far awayרָחַקrâchaq · to removeH7368

Cross-references for Isaiah 49:19

• Isaiah 49:8This is what the Lord says: ‘I will answer your prayers at the time that I have chosen to help you. Yes, I will come to save you on that day. I will keep you safe, so that I can make a covenant with people through you. You will make the land safe again. People will return to live there, in places that had become empty.
• Isaiah 51:3Surely, the Lord will comfort Zion's people. He will take care of the buildings that enemies have destroyed. Zion's land that is now a wilderness will become like the beautiful Garden of Eden. It will be the Lord's own garden! People will be happy again in Zion. They will sing with joy to thank God.
• Isaiah 54:1‘Sing with joy, you woman who could not give birth to any children. You have never known the pain of a child's birth, but now shout loudly with joy. Be happy, because the woman who is alone will have many children. She will have more children than the woman who has a husband.’ That is what the Lord says.
• Jeremiah 30:18The Lord says, ‘I will bring back Jacob's descendants to their own land. Enemies have knocked down their houses, but I will repair the homes where they lived. I will be kind to them, so that each family can live safely. The city will stand again in its right place. The palace will also stand where it was before.
• Jeremiah 33:10The Lord says, “You say that this place is like a desert, and no people or animals live here. But I tell you that people will return to live here. You will hear the voices of people in the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah that are now empty.
• Ezekiel 36:9I am your friend and I will take care of you. Men will plough your ground and they will plant seeds in it.
• Hosea 1:10In the future, nobody will be able to count the number of Israel's people. They will be as much as the sand on the shore of the sea. God has said to them, ‘You are not my people.’ But at that time, he will say to them, ‘You are children of the God who lives!’
• Zechariah 2:4The second angel said to the first angel, ‘Run to that young man with the line in his hand. Say that Jerusalem will be a city without walls. This is because of the many people and many animals that will live in it.
• Zechariah 10:10I will bring my people back from Egypt, and I will bring them here together from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and to Lebanon. There will not be enough room for them all.
• Isaiah 49:17Your children will hurry back to you, to build you again. The enemies who destroyed you will go away.
• Psalms 56:1God, please be kind to me, and help me, because people are fighting me. My enemies are attacking me every day.
• Psalms 124:3our enemies would have eaten us alive! They would have destroyed us, because they were so angry against us.
• Proverbs 1:12We will send them quickly to their graves. They may be strong and healthy, but they will soon be under the earth.
• Jeremiah 30:16But I will destroy your enemies who destroyed you. All of them will go as prisoners to foreign lands. They took your valuable things for themselves. Now I will take away their valuable things.
• Jeremiah 51:33The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this: Babylon is like a threshing floor that is ready for people to stamp on wheat. The harvest time will soon come! Then the enemy will cut down Babylon, and they will stamp all over it!’
• Ezekiel 36:3So now prophesy to those mountains. Tell them, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Your enemies attacked you from every side. They won against you, so that you belonged to other nations. People talked about you and they insulted you.

Commentaries on Isaiah 49:19

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19For thy waste and thy desolate places - Thy land over which ruin has been spread, and ever which the exile nation mourns. And the land of thy destruction - That is, thy land laid in ruins. The construction is not uncommon where a noun is used to express the sense of an adjective. Thus in Psalm 2:6, the Hebrew phrase (margin) is correctly rendered my holy hill.‘ Here the sense is, that their entire country had been so laid waste as to be a land of…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-23Verses 18-23 Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to be a comfort to her. There are times when the church is desolate and few in number; yet its desolations shall not last for ever, and God will repair them. God can raise up friends for returning Israelites, even among Gentiles. They shall bring their children, and make them thy children. Let all deal tenderly and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-21The 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).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. land of thy destruction--thy land once the scene of destruction. too narrow--(Is 54:1, 2; Zec 10:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 49:19

• Church
• Gentiles
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ

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Commentaries on Isaiah 49

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings