Isaiah 49:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ therefore thy sons whom thou hast lost will say in thine ears, This place is too strait for me: make room for me, where I may dwell.

¹⁴ When the children of Joseph complained to Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given us but one lot, and one portion, to inherit, seeing I am a numerous people, and God hath blessed me? ¹⁵ Joshua said to them, If thou art a numerous people, go up into the forest and clear it for thyself, if the mountain Ephraim be too narrow for thee. ¹⁶ Whereupon they said we are not satisfied with mount Ephraim, and the Chananites, who dwell there in Baithsan, and its villages, and in the valley of Jezrael, have choice horses, and iron.

¹ When the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold the place where we dwell before thee it too confined for us;

³ And now Sion, I will comfort thee. I have indeed comforted all her desolations, and I will make her waste places like a garden; and those west of her like the garden of the Lord. In her shall be found joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of praise.

¹ rejoice thou barren, who bearest not; break forth with shouts of joy, thou who sufferest not the pangs of child birth; for many more are the children of the desolate than of her who hath a husband. For the Lord said, ² Enlarge the place of thy tent and thy curtains; fix up; spare not; lengthen thy cords and make thy stakes strong. ³ Extend still farther to the right and left. And thy seed shall inherit nations and thou shalt inhabit wasted cities.

⁴ Raise thine eyes around and behold thy children gathered together; all thy sons are come from afar, and thy daughters shall be carried on shoulders.

¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God,

⁹ and presume not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father! For I say to you, God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free: this is the mother of us all; ²⁷ for it is written, Hagar, [which' in Arabic signifies a rock] was and still is the name of Sina among the Arabians; Rejoice thou barren, who bearest not; Break forth with shouts of joy, Thou who sufferest not the pangs of childbirth, For many more are the children of the desolate, Than of her who hath a husband. ²⁸ Now we, brethren, are children of promise, as Isaak was.