Isaiah 49:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.’”
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“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.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 49:20 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 17:14Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
- 2 Kings 6:1Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
- Isaiah 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- Isaiah 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
- Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- Matthew 3:9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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