Isaiah 49:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

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  • Josh 17:14-16 : 14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given us only one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing we are a great people since the LORD has blessed us so far?" 15 Joshua answered them, "If you are a great people, then go up to the forest and cut down an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the giants, if Mount Ephraim is too small for you." 16 The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have iron chariots, both those who are of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel."
  • 2 Kgs 6:1 : 1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we live with you is too small for us.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the LORD will 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 will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Isa 54:1-3 : 1 Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD. 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; 3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
  • Isa 60:4 : 4 Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried at your side.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Gal 4:26-28 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.' 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

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    84%

    19For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • Isa 49:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21Then you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?

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

  • Isa 49:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

    16Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

    17Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

  • Isa 54:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.

    2Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;

    3For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

  • Deut 28:41
    72%

    41You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

  • Deut 28:32
    71%

    32Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

  • Isa 51:19
    71%

    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Jer 49:11
    70%

    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Deut 28:55
    70%

    55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

  • Hos 9:12
    70%

    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Isa 48:19
    70%

    19Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like its gravel; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  • Deut 28:57
    70%

    57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Deut 1:39
    69%

    39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Deut 29:22
    68%

    22So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;

  • 2 Kgs 20:18
    68%

    18And of your sons who will come from you, whom you will father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • Jer 10:20
    68%

    20My tent is ruined, and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are no more: there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • Mic 2:9
    68%

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Jer 30:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19And out of them shall come thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

    20Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

  • Jer 31:17
    68%

    17And there is hope in your future, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.

  • Ps 45:16
    68%

    16Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.

  • Ezek 14:22
    68%

    22Yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come to you, and you shall see their way and their deeds: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

  • Isa 60:4
    68%

    4Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried at your side.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    68%

    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • Ezek 36:12
    68%

    12Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of men.

  • Isa 39:7
    68%

    7And of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • Jer 10:17
    68%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Jer 49:15
    67%

    15For behold, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • Gal 4:27
    67%

    27For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.'

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    67%

    1And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we live with you is too small for us.

  • Mic 5:3
    67%

    3Therefore he will give them up, until the time that she who labors has brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

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    67%

    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
    67%

    19When you were few in number, even very few, and strangers in it.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    67%

    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

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    67%

    16Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness like the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.

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    67%

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    67%

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    67%

    22And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among you, and to the strangers who live among you, who shall bear children among you: and they shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.