Yesaya 49:19-20

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 

Yesaya 54:2-3

54:2 Make your tent larger,

stretch your tent curtains farther out! ⁴ 

Spare no effort,

lengthen your ropes,

and pound your stakes deep. ⁵ 

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

your children will conquer ⁶  nations

and will resettle desolate cities.

[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.”

[54:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the curtains of our dwelling places let them stretch out.”

[54:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”

[54:3]  ⁶ tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”