Isaiah 49:20

King James Version (KJV)

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.

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18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

19 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.

20 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.

21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

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Isaiah 49:20 in every translation

KJV 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.
WEB World English Bible: The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
ASV 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.
YLT Young's 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.'
DBY 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.
WBS Webster Bible: 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.