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- Isaiah
- Chapter 49
- Verse 20
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.
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Gill's Exposition
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,.... Which "other lost" are not the Jews, the broken branches, rejected and cut off for unbelief; and the "children after" them not…
Barnes' Notes
The children which thou shalt have - The increase of the population shall be so great. After thou hast lost the other - Hebrew, ‘The sons of thy widowhood.’ That is, after thou hast lost those that…
Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in the reviving of the Jewish church after its return out of captivity, but more fully in the planting of the Christian church by…
Cambridge Bible
The children … other Lit. the sons of thy bereavement, i.e. those born to thee in the time of thy bereavement (see Isa 49:49).
shall yet say in thine ears The mother overhears the talk of her vigorous…
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