Isaiah 49:19-21

49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;

it is desolate and devastated. ¹ 

But now you will be too small to hold your residents,

and those who devoured you will be far away.

49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us, ² 

make room for us so we can live here.’ ³ 

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ⁴ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ⁵ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

Isaiah 54:2-3

54:2 Make your tent larger,

stretch your tent curtains farther out! ⁶ 

Spare no effort,

lengthen your ropes,

and pound your stakes deep. ⁷ 

54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;

your children will conquer ⁸  nations

and will resettle desolate cities.

Isaiah 60:22

60:22 The least of you will multiply into ⁹  a thousand;

the smallest of you will become a large nation.

When the right time comes, I the Lord will quickly do this!” ¹⁰ 

[49:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.

[49:20]  ² tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

[49:20]  ³ tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”

[49:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ⁵ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”

[54:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “the curtains of our dwelling places let them stretch out.”

[54:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”

[54:3]  ⁸ tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”

[60:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “will become” (so NASB, NIV).

[60:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I, the Lord, in its time, I will quickly do it.”