Catholic Public Domain Version
"Even the children of your barrenness will say in your ears: “This place is too narrow for me. Make me a spacious place in which to dwell.” "
— Isaiah 49:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.”
“The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell. ”
“The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.”
“Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing,‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’”
“The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.”
“The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.”
“The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.”
Your builders have arrived. Those who would tear you down and destroy you, they will depart from you.
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these have been gathered together; they have come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you shall be clothed with all these things, as if with an ornament. And like a bride, you shall wrap these things all around you.
For your deserts, and your solitary places, and the land of your ruination will now be too narrow, because of all the inhabitants. And those who devoured you will be chased far away.
Even the children of your barrenness will say in your ears: “This place is too narrow for me. Make me a spacious place in which to dwell.”
And you will say in your heart: “Who has conceived them? I was barren and unable to give birth. I was taken away and held captive. And so, who has raised them? I was destitute and alone. And so, where have they been?”
Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and I will exalt my sign before the peoples. And they will carry your sons in their arms, and they will bear your daughters on their shoulders.
And kings will be your caretakers, and queens will be your nursemaids. They will reverence you with their face to the ground, and they will lick the dust at your feet. And you will know that I am the Lord. For those who hope in him will not be confounded.