Bible verse
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.’
Isaiah 49:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 49.
16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
17 Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
19 For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 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.’
21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
22 This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
24 Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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