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Selected Verse: Isaiah 49:19 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 49:19 |
Strong Concordance |
For thy waste [02723] and thy desolate places [08074], and the land [0776] of thy destruction [02035], shall even now be too narrow [03334] by reason of the inhabitants [03427], and they that swallowed thee up [01104] shall be far away [07368]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
land of thy destruction--thy land once the scene of destruction.
too narrow-- (Isa 54:1-2; Zac 10:10). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For thy waste and thy desolate places - Thy land over which ruin has been spread, and ever which the exile nation mourns.
And the land of thy destruction - That is, thy land laid in ruins. The construction is not uncommon where a noun is used to express the sense of an adjective. Thus in Psa 2:6, the Hebrew phrase (margin) is correctly rendered 'my holy hill.' Here the sense is, that their entire country had been so laid waste as to be a land of desolation.
Shall even now be too narrow - Shall be too limited to contain all who shall become converted to the true God. The contracted territory of Palestine shall be incapable of sustaining all who will acknowledge the true God, and who shall be regarded as his friends.
And they that swallowed thee up - The enemies that laid waste thy land, and that "absorbed," as it were, thy inhabitants, and removed them to a distant land. They shall be all gone, and the land shall smile again in prosperity and in loveliness. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Thus will Zion shine forth once more with the multitude of her children as with a festal adorning. "For thy ruins and thy waste places and thy land full of ruin - yea, now thou wilt be too narrow for the inhabitants, and thy devourers are far away. Thy children, that were formerly taken from thee, shall say in thine ears, The space is too narrow for me; give way for me, that I may have room." The word "for" (kı̄) introduces the explanatory reason for the figures just employed of jewellery and a bridal girdle. Instead of the three subjects, "thy ruins," etc., the comprehensive "thou" is employed permutatively, and the sentence commenced afresh. כּי is repeated emphatically in עתּה כּי (for now, or yea now); this has essentially the same meaning as in the apodosis of hypothetical protasis (e.g., Gen 31:42; Gen 43:10), except that the sense is more decidedly affirmative than in the present instance, where one sees it spring out of the confirmative. Zion, that has been hitherto desolate, now becomes too small to hold her inhabitants; and her devourers are far away, i.e., those who took forcible possession of the land and cities, and made them untenable. עוד is to be understood in accordance with Psa 42:6, and בעזניך in accordance with Psa 54:2 (see at Isa 5:9). It will even come to this, that the children of which Zion was formerly robbed will call to one another, so that she becomes a witness with her ears to that which they have so clearly seen: the space is too narrow, give way (geshâh, from nâgash, to advance, then to move generally, also to move in an opposite direction, i.e., to fall back, as in Gen 19:9) for me, that I may be able to settle down. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thy waste places - Thy own land, whereof divers parts lie waste for want of people to possess them. Land of destruction - Which before was desolate and destroyed. |
10 I will bring them again [07725] also out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], and gather [06908] them out of Assyria [0804]; and I will bring [0935] them into the land [0776] of Gilead [01568] and Lebanon [03844]; and place shall not be found [04672] for them.
1 Sing [07442], O barren [06135], thou that didst not bear [03205]; break forth [06476] into singing [07440], and cry aloud [06670], thou that didst not travail with child [02342]: for more [07227] are the children [01121] of the desolate [08074] than the children [01121] of the married wife [01166], saith [0559] the LORD [03068].
2 Enlarge [07337] the place [04725] of thy tent [0168], and let them stretch forth [05186] the curtains [03407] of thine habitations [04908]: spare [02820] not, lengthen [0748] thy cords [04340], and strengthen [02388] thy stakes [03489];
6 Yet have I set [05258] my king [04428] upon my holy [06944] hill [02022] of Zion [06726].
9 And they said [0559], Stand [05066] back [01973]. And they said [0559] again, This one [0259] fellow came in [0935] to sojourn [01481], and he will needs [08199] be a judge [08199]: now will we deal worse [07489] with thee, than with them. And they pressed [06484] sore [03966] upon the man [0376], even Lot [03876], and came near [05066] to break [07665] the door [01817].
9 In mine ears [0241] said the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], Of a truth [03808] many [07227] houses [01004] shall be desolate [08047], even great [01419] and fair [02896], without inhabitant [03427].
2 Hear [08085] my prayer [08605], O God [0430]; give ear [0238] to the words [0561] of my mouth [06310].
6 O my God [0430], my soul [05315] is cast down [07817] within me: therefore will I remember [02142] thee from the land [0776] of Jordan [03383], and of the Hermonites [02769], from the hill [02022] Mizar [04706].
10 For except [03884] we had lingered [04102], surely now we had returned [07725] this second time [06471].
42 Except [03884] the God [0430] of my father [01], the God [0430] of Abraham [085], and the fear [06343] of Isaac [03327], had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away [07971] now empty [07387]. God [0430] hath seen [07200] mine affliction [06040] and the labour [03018] of my hands [03709], and rebuked [03198] thee yesternight [0570].