Isaiah 49:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ »‘The children removed from you will say to you: ‘This place is too crowed for me. Make room for me to live here.’

¹⁴ The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying: »Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Jehovah has blessed us abundantly.« ¹⁵ Joshua answered: »If you are a great people, then get to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you.« ¹⁶ The children of Joseph said: »The hill is not enough for us. All the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.«

¹ The group of prophets Elisha was in charge of complained to him: »The place where we live is too small!

³ Jehovah will surely comfort Zion. He will look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden and her wastelands like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her along with thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

¹ »Sing joyfully, O barren woman, you who never bore a child! Burst into song and shout for joy, you who were never in labor! More are the children of the desolate woman than of the woman, who has a husband,« proclaims Jehovah. ² »Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide and do not hold back. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. ³ »For you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

⁴ »Look up, look around, and watch. All of your people assemble and come to you. Your sons come from far away. Your daughters are carried in their arms.

¹⁰ »Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the grains of the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. It will be said: You are the sons of the living God in the place where it was said you are not my people!

⁹ »Do not presume that Abraham is your father. I tell you that God can make descendants for Abraham from these stones!

²⁶ The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother. ²⁷ It is written, »Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth. Break forth and cry, you who do not labor; for there are more children of the desolate than of the one who has the husband.« ²⁸ Brothers, we are children who belong to the promise, the same as Isaac was.