Isaiah 49:19

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
waste	חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ cha.re.vo.Ta.yikh	H2723	properly · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
places	וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ ve.Sho.me.mo.Ta.yikh	H8074	to stun (or intransitively · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
land	וְאֶ֖רֶץ ve.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
destruction	הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְ ha.ri.su.Teikh	H2035	demolition · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
narrow	תֵּצְרִ֣י te.tze.Ri	H3334	to press (intransitive) · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular
inhabitants	מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב mi.yo.Shev	H3427	properly · preposition + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
up	מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ me.va.le.'A.yikh	H1104	to make away with (specifically by swallowing) · verb, piel active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
away	וְרָחֲק֖וּ ve.ra.cha.Ku	H7368	to widen (in any direction) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural

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Cross-references

Zechariah 10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Leb…
Isaiah 54:1-2 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the…
Jeremiah 30:18-19 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be…
Psalms 56:1-2 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Isaiah 49:25-26 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will co…
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the ga…
Hosea 1:10-11 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass,…
Psalms 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:18-23

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 the preaching of the gospel of Christ; and we may take the comfort of these promises. I. That the church shall be replenished with great numbers added to it. It was promised (Isa 49:17) that her children should make haste; that promise is here enlarged upon, and is made very encouraging. It is promised, 1. That multitudes shall flock to the church from all parts. Look round, and see how they gather themselves to thee (Isa 49:18), by a local accession to the Jewish church. They come to Jerusalem fr…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:19

land of thy destruction--thy land once the scene of destruction. too narrow-- (Isa 54:1-2; Zac 10:10).

John Gill on Isaiah 49:19

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,.... Or "thy land of destruction, or thy destroyed land" (n); laid waste and desolate by the enemy, without inhabitants; such countries in which there were few professors of the true religion: shall even now be too narrow, by reason of the inhabitants; because of the multitude of them; a hyperbolical expression, setting forth the great numbers of Christian converts everywhere: this straitness will not be on account of strangers or enemies having taken possession; but on account of those who are true and proper possessors: for it follows, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away; from the church; the Heathen, th…

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John Calvin on Isaiah 49:19

For thy desolate places, he confirms by other words what we have already seen, that the change which he promised is in the hand of God, that the Church, which was for a long time waste and desolate, may speedily have many inhabitants; so that the place may be too narrow to contain them all. He employs the metaphor of a ruinous city, whose walls and houses are rebuilt, to which the citizens return in such vast numbers that its circumference must be enlarged, because its former extent cannot contain them all. Thus he means not only the return of the people from Babylon, but the restoration which was effected through Christ; that is, when the Church was spread far and wide, not only throughout…

The Church Fathers

This means that he is teaching here about the ones who were swarming and absorbing it, those who had taken it over. For almost like wild beasts they had reduced and absorbed it. He shows here that the number of those called are so many that they are without number. For his children, it says, that you have lost have pleaded in your ear, "Make room for me."
— Cyril of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 4:4.49:19-21

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Dictionary and topics

Church — Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia,…
Isaiah, Book Of — I. Chapters 1-5 contain Isaiah’s prophecies in the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham, foretelling that the present prosperity of Judah should be destroyed, and that Israel should be brought to desolation.…
Gentiles · PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF — PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF

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Isaiah 49:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:18-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:19

John Gill on Isaiah 49:19

John Calvin on Isaiah 49:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 49:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:18-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:19

John Gill on Isaiah 49:19

John Calvin on Isaiah 49:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 49:19-20

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 49:19-21

Rashi on Isaiah 49:19