Isaiah 49:20

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 

Jeremiah 30:19

30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ³ 

and the sounds of laughter and merriment.

I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ⁴ 

I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

Jeremiah 33:22

33:22 I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’” ⁵ 

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

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

[30:19]  ³ tn Heb “Out of them will come thanksgiving and a sound of those who are playful.”

[30:19]  ⁴ sn Compare Jer 29:6.

[33:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “Just as the stars in the sky cannot be numbered or the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so I will greatly increase [or multiply] the seed of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.” The word “seed of” does not carry over to the “the Levites” as a noun governing two genitives because “the Levites” has the accusative marker in front of it. The sentence has been broken down in conformity with contemporary English style.