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The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
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Hope in Desolation
Commentators explain that this verse uses the powerful image of the people of God as a bereaved or barren mother. After a period of great loss and desolation (like the exile or persecution), God promises a surprising and explosive growth. Children will be born to her "contrary to expectation" (Calvin), so numerous that they cry out for more space. This is a profound promise that God brings life and revival from what seems like a hopeless situation.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The children which you shall have - The increase of the population shall be so great.
After you have lost the other - Hebrew, …
19th Century
Anglican
The children whom you shall have ... —Better, the children of your bereavement (i.e., born when Zion thought her…
Baptist
Shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath …
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16th Century
Protestant
Shall again say in your ears. Isaiah continues the same subject and, under a different metaphor, promises the restoration of the Church. H…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other Which "other lost" a…
Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to be a comfort to her.<…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give ear, you islands. In this part, he describes the order of liberation in more detail. Regarding this, he does two things:
