Isaiah 49:20-21

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

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us, ¹ 

make room for us so we can live here.’ ² 

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ³ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ⁴ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

[49:20]  ¹ tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

[49:20]  ² tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”

[49:21]  ³ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ⁴ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”