Isaiah 49:19

19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate [places] and land of ruins, surely now you will be {too cramped for your} inhabitants, and those who engulfed you will be far away.

Isaiah 49:19 Meaning and Commentary

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, the Gentiles, or Papists, shall now perish out of his,
Jehovah's, "land"; "sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked be no more", ( Psalms 10:16 ) ( 104:35 ) . Antichrist and his abettors, which "swallowed" up the people, their riches, and substance, like beasts of prey, to which he is compared, shall go into perdition, and never disturb the church any more, ( Revelation 13:1 Revelation 13:11 ) ( Revelation 17:3 Revelation 17:8 ) ( 19:20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (Ktoyrh Ura) "terra tua destructa", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, De Dieu; "et terram destructionis tuam", Cocceius; "et terram tuam quae destructa est", Vitringa.

Isaiah 49:19 In-Context

17 Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart from you.

18 Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. {As surely as I live}, {declares} Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like [an] ornament, and you shall bind them on like [a] bride.

19 Surely your sites of ruins and desolate [places] and land of ruins, surely now you will be {too cramped for your} inhabitants, and those who engulfed you will be far away.

20 Yet the children {born when you were bereaved} will say in your {hearing}, "The place is [too] cramped for me; {make room} for me so that I can dwell."

21 Then you will say in your heart, "Who has borne me these?" And, "I [was] bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; {where have these come from}?"

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "ruin"