Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place where we are living in your presence is too cramped for us.
Isaiah 49:20 - Tree of Life Version The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, “The place is too cramped for me! Make room for me to settle in.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The children of your bereavement [born during your captivity] shall yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me, that I may live. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible You will again hear the children who were born bereaved say, “The place is too crowded for me; make room for me to settle.” Catholic Public Domain Version Even the children of your barrenness will say in your ears: "This place is too narrow for me. Make me a spacious place in which to dwell." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me. Make me room to dwell in. |
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place where we are living in your presence is too cramped for us.
for when he sees his children, the work of My hands in his midst, they will sanctify My Name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and stand in awe of the God of Israel.
For Adonai will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of Adonai. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and a sound of melody.
Lift up your eyes and look all around: they all gather—they come to you— your sons will come from far away, your daughters carried on the hip.
I will restore from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon till there is no room for them.
I asked, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He answered, ‘These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations that have lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.’
and do not think that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’! For I tell you that from these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.