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Your enemies who enslaved you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/49.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/49.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/49.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/49.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/49.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“For your ruins and deserted places and your destroyed land— Now you will certainly be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/49.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/49.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“For your waste and desolate places, and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/49.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For your devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/49.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“For your ruins and desolate places and your land [once the scene] of destruction— Certainly now [in the coming years] will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who <i>once</i> engulfed you will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/49.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/49.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins— will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/49.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/49.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Jerusalem is now in ruins! Nothing is left of the city. But it will be rebuilt and soon overcrowded; its cruel enemies will be gone far away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/49.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/49.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Though you are destroyed and demolished and your land is in ruins, you will be too crowded for [your] people now. Those who devoured you will be long gone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/49.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Your country was ruined and desolate--but now it will be too small for those who are coming to live there. And those who left you in ruins will be far removed from you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/49.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places, and your devastated land will now be too crowded for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/49.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/49.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/49.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/49.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/49.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/49.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Because your ruins, and your desolate places, "" And the land of your ruins, "" Are now surely restricted because of inhabitants, "" And those consuming you have been far off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/49.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Because thy wastes, and thy desolate places, And the land of thy ruins, Surely now are straitened because of inhabitants, And far off have been those consuming thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/49.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For thy wastes and thy desolations, and the land of thy destruction, for now it shall press for the inhabitants, and they swallowing thee up were far away.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/49.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, end they that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/49.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For your deserts, and your solitary places, and the land of your ruination will now be too narrow, because of all the inhabitants. And those who devoured you will be chased far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/49.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Though you were waste and desolate, a land of ruins, Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/49.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/49.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For your waste and your desolate places and the land of your destruction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall flee away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/49.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because your ruins and your desolations and land of your ruin shall be narrower therefore than the dweller, and your devourers shall flee<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/49.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For thy waste and thy desolate places And thy land that hath been destroyed-- Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/49.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For thy desert and marred and ruined <i>places</i> shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/49-19.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=11121" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/49.htm">You are My Servant</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">18</span>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. <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/2723.htm" title="2723: ḥā·rə·ḇō·ṯa·yiḵ (N-fpc:: 2fs) -- Waste, desolation, ruin. Feminine of choreb; properly, drought, i.e. a desolation.">your ruined</a> <a href="/hebrew/8074.htm" title="8074: wə·šō·mə·mō·ṯa·yiḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-fpc:: 2fs) -- To be desolated or appalled. A primitive root; to stun, i.e. Devastate or stupefy.">and desolate places</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: wə·’e·reṣ (Conj-w:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">and your ravaged land</a> <a href="/hebrew/2035.htm" title="2035: hă·ri·su·ṯêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- An overthrow, destruction, ruin. From harac; demolition."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6258.htm" title="6258: ‘at·tāh (Adv) -- Now. From eth; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive.">will now</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">indeed</a> <a href="/hebrew/3334.htm" title="3334: tê·ṣə·rî (V-Qal-Imperf-2fs) -- A primitive root; to press, i.e. Be narrow; figuratively, be in distress.">be too small</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: mî·yō·wō·šêḇ (Prep-m:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">for your people,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1104.htm" title="1104: mə·ḇal·lə·‘ā·yiḵ (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mpc:: 2fs) -- To swallow down, swallow up, engulf. A primitive root; to make away with; generally, to destroy.">and those who devoured you</a> <a href="/hebrew/7368.htm" title="7368: wə·rā·ḥă·qū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To be or become far or distant. A primitive root; to widen, i.e. recede or remove.">will be far away.</a> </span><span class="reftext">20</span>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.’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/54-1.htm">Isaiah 54:1-3</a></span><br />“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. / “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep. / For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/60-4.htm">Isaiah 60:4-5</a></span><br />Lift 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. / Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/62-4.htm">Isaiah 62:4-5</a></span><br />No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride. / For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1-2</a></span><br />The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. / It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/36-35.htm">Ezekiel 36:35</a></span><br />Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/31-12.htm">Jeremiah 31:12-14</a></span><br />They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish. / Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow. / I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/8-4.htm">Zechariah 8:4-5</a></span><br />This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age. / And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Amos 9:14-15</a></span><br />I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. / I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/1-10.htm">Hosea 1:10</a></span><br />Yet 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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/7-11.htm">Micah 7:11</a></span><br />The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-14.htm">Matthew 5:14</a></span><br />You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-29.htm">Luke 13:29</a></span><br />People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/10-16.htm">John 10:16</a></span><br />I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/2-41.htm">Acts 2:41</a></span><br />Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/9-25.htm">Romans 9:25-26</a></span><br />As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” / 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.’”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.</p><p class="hdg">thy waste</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/49-8.htm">Isaiah 49:8</a></b></br> Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm">Isaiah 51:3</a></b></br> For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/54-1.htm">Isaiah 54:1,2</a></b></br> Sing, O barren, thou <i>that</i> didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou <i>that</i> didst not travail with child: for more <i>are</i> the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD… </p><p class="hdg">they that</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/49-17.htm">Isaiah 49:17,25,26</a></b></br> Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/56-1.htm">Psalm 56:1,2</a></b></br> To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/124-3.htm">Psalm 124:3</a></b></br> Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/33-14.htm">Consuming</a> <a href="/job/20-22.htm">Cramped</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-8.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-19.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm">Devastated</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-12.htm">Far</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm">Inhabitants</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-17.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm">Narrow</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-9.htm">Places</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-5.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-10.htm">Ruined</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-26.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-6.htm">Small</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-27.htm">Strait</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-10.htm">Straitened</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Swallowed</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-17.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-9.htm">Wastes</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-21.htm">Wide</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/2-3.htm">Consuming</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Cramped</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-15.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-19.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-4.htm">Devastated</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-14.htm">Far</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-6.htm">Inhabitants</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-13.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Narrow</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm">Places</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-8.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-12.htm">Ruined</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-9.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Small</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Strait</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-6.htm">Straitened</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-25.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-34.htm">Swallowed</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-9.htm">Wastes</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Wide</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 49</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/49-1.htm">Christ being sent to the Jews, complains of them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/49-5.htm">He is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/49-13.htm">God's love is perpetual to his church</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm">The ample restoration of the church</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/49-24.htm">The powerful deliverance out of captivity</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/49.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/49.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>For your ruined and desolate places</b><br>This phrase refers to the condition of Jerusalem and the land of Israel after the Babylonian exile. Historically, the Babylonian conquest led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, leaving the city in ruins. The desolation signifies both physical destruction and spiritual desolation due to the people's separation from God. This imagery is often used in prophetic literature to describe the consequences of Israel's disobedience and the resulting judgment.<p><b>and your ravaged land</b><br>The land of Israel, once flowing with milk and honey, was left barren and devastated by foreign invaders. This reflects the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where disobedience leads to the land being ravaged by enemies. The term "ravaged" emphasizes the thoroughness of the destruction, affecting agriculture, economy, and the social fabric of the nation.<p><b>will now indeed be too small for your people</b><br>This phrase prophesies a future restoration and growth of the nation. Despite the current desolation, there is a promise of return and increase. This is consistent with the Abrahamic covenant in <a href="/genesis/12-2.htm">Genesis 12:2</a>, where God promises to make Abraham's descendants a great nation. The imagery of the land being "too small" suggests an overflow of blessings and a reversal of the previous desolation.<p><b>and those who devoured you will be far away</b><br>This indicates a divine intervention where enemies who once oppressed Israel will no longer pose a threat. The term "devoured" suggests complete consumption and destruction by foreign powers, such as Babylon. The promise that these enemies will be "far away" signifies peace and security, aligning with prophecies of a future messianic kingdom where God will protect His people. This can be seen as a type of Christ, who brings ultimate peace and restoration.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/z/zion/jerusalem.htm">Zion/Jerusalem</a></b><br>Often referred to in Isaiah, Zion represents the city of Jerusalem and, symbolically, the people of God. In this context, it is depicted as a place that has experienced desolation but is promised restoration.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_exile.htm">The Exile</a></b><br>The historical backdrop includes the Babylonian exile, where the Israelites were taken captive, leading to the desolation of their homeland.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_return.htm">The Return</a></b><br>The prophecy anticipates the return of the exiles and the restoration of the land, symbolizing hope and renewal for God's people.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_devourers.htm">The Devourers</a></b><br>These are the enemies or oppressors of Israel, who have caused destruction and desolation but will be removed as God restores His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_promise_of_restoration.htm">God's Promise of Restoration</a></b><br>Despite current desolation, God promises restoration and growth. Trust in His timing and faithfulness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_times_of_desolation.htm">Hope in Times of Desolation</a></b><br>When facing personal or communal desolation, remember that God has a plan for renewal and expansion.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_removal_of_oppressors.htm">The Removal of Oppressors</a></b><br>God will deal with those who have caused harm to His people. Trust in His justice and deliverance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_growth_and_expansion.htm">Spiritual Growth and Expansion</a></b><br>Just as the land will be too small for the returning exiles, our spiritual lives should be expanding and growing in Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Faith in God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Even when circumstances seem bleak, have faith in God's sovereign plan for restoration and blessing.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_49.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 49</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_ezekiel_35_conflict_with_other_scriptures.htm">Does Ezekiel 35 conflict with other scriptures that suggest different fates or timelines for Edom?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_amos_9_13's_prophecy_literal_or_symbolic.htm">Amos 9:13 – Is the prophecy of the plowman overtaking the reaper a literal farming impossibility, and does it conflict with more realistic agricultural references elsewhere in scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_isaiah_34_10-11_claim_desolation.htm">Why does the text in Isaiah 34:10-11 claim permanent desolation when other biblical passages speak of possible restoration?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/proof_of_divine_judgment_turning_lands_barren.htm">Psalm 107:33-34 - Is there archaeological or geological proof that fertile lands were turned into deserts or rivers dried up purely as an act of divine judgment?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/49.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(19) <span class= "bld">Shall even now be too narrow.</span>--Literally, with a vivid abruptness, <span class= "ital">thou shalt be </span><span class= "bld">. . .</span> The over population of the future is contrasted with the depopulation of the past (<a href="/isaiah/3-6.htm" title="When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:">Isaiah 3:6</a>; <a href="/isaiah/4-1.htm" title="And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.">Isaiah 4:1</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/49.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The land of thy destruction</span>; or, <span class="accented">of thy overthrow - i.e</span>, where thou wert overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar - <span class="cmt_word">shall</span> <span class="cmt_word">even now be too narrow</span>, etc. This must not be understood literally. Palestine, after the return from the Captivity, was at no time over-populated; and when the conversion of the Gentiles took place it caused no influx of fresh settlers into the Holy Land. The object of the prophet is simply to mark the vast growth of the Church, which would necessarily spread itself far beyond the limits of Palestine, and would ultimately require the whole earth for its habitation. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/49-19.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your ruined</span><br /><span class="heb">חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·rə·ḇō·ṯa·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2723.htm">Strong's 2723: </a> </span><span class="str2">Waste, desolation, ruin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and desolate places</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šō·mə·mō·ṯa·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8074.htm">Strong's 8074: </a> </span><span class="str2">To stun, devastate, stupefy</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and your ravaged land</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאֶ֖רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will now</span><br /><span class="heb">עַתָּה֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘at·tāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6258.htm">Strong's 6258: </a> </span><span class="str2">At this time</span><br /><br /><span class="word">indeed</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">be too small</span><br /><span class="heb">תֵּצְרִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(tê·ṣə·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3334.htm">Strong's 3334: </a> </span><span class="str2">Be distressed, be narrow, be straitened in straits, be vexed </span><br /><br /><span class="word">for your people,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב</span> <span class="translit">(mî·yō·wō·šêḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and those who devoured you</span><br /><span class="heb">מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃</span> <span class="translit">(mə·ḇal·lə·‘ā·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1104.htm">Strong's 1104: </a> </span><span class="str2">To swallow down, swallow up, engulf</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be far away.</span><br /><span class="heb">וְרָחֲק֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·rā·ḥă·qū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7368.htm">Strong's 7368: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become far or distant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/49-19.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 49:19 For as for your waste and your (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 49:18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 49:18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 49:20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 49:20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>