Isaiah 49:19

“For your ruins and your desolate places and the land of your destruction surely now will be too narrow for the inhabitant, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.”

Isaiah 49:19 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 49:19, word by word

your ruinsחָרְבֹתַיִcharvotayi

ruin, desolate place

A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.

Where else “charvotayi” appears
and your desolate placesשֹׁמְמֹתַיִshommotayi

be desolate

To be left empty and ruined, or make it so.

Where else “shommotayi” appears
and the landאֶרֶץerets

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

Where else “erets” appears
of your destructionהֲרִסֻתֵיharisute

ruins, destruction

Ruins, destruction, what has been torn down.

Where else “harisute” appears
will be too narrowתֵּצְרִיtetsri

be cramped

To be too small a place for those who live in it.

Where else “tetsri” appears
for the inhabitantיּוֹשֵׁבyoshev

dwell

To make one's home in a place.

Where else “yoshev” appears
and those who swallowed you upמְבַלְּעָיִmevalayi

swallow

Swallow, swallow up; hence, destroy.

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will be far awayרָחֲקוּrachaku

be far

To be distant: "do not stay away from me".

Where else “rachaku” appears

The context

18Lift up your eyes all around and see: all of them gather, they come to you. As I live, declares YHWH, surely you will clothe yourself with all of them as with an ornament, and bind them on like a bride.

19 · This verse (above)

20Still they will say in your ears, the children of your loss of children: ‘The place is too narrow for me; make room for me, and I will dwell.’

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