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Stillעוֹדthey will sayיֹאמְרוּin your ears,בְאָזְנַיִךְthe childrenבְּנֵיof your loss of children:שִׁכֻּלָיִךְ‘The placeהַמָּקוֹםis too narrowצַרfor me;לִיmake roomגְּשָׁהfor me,לִּיand I will dwell.’וְאֵשֵׁבָה
Isaiah 49:20
Study it in the app“Still 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.’”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 49:20, word by word
- they will sayיֹאמְרוּyomru
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appears- in your earsאָזְנַיִaznayi
hearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “aznayi” appears- the childrenבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- of your loss of childrenשִׁכֻּלָיִshikulayi
loss of children
Loss of children, being left childless.
Where else “shikulayi” appears- ‘The placeמָּקוֹםmakom
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appears- is too narrowצַרtsar
narrow
Not wide, with no room to move.
Where else “tsar” appears- make roomגְּשָׁgesha
come near
To go until one is near someone or something.
Where else “gesha” appears- and I will dwell.’אֵשֵׁבָהesheva
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “esheva” appears
The context
19For 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.
20 · This verse (above)
21And you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved of children and barren, an exile and set aside; and these, who brought them up? Look, I was left by myself; these, where were they?’”