The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,‘ This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’

你必听见丧子之后所生的儿女说：‘这地方我居住太窄，求你给我地方居住。

你要再听见丧失子女后所生的儿女说：“这地方我居住太窄，请你给我地方居住。”

你要再听见丧失子女后所生的儿女说：“这地方我居住太窄，请你给我地方居住。”

你流亡期间所生的子女必在你耳边说，‘这地方太小了，再给我们一些地方住吧。’

你丧子以后所生的儿女还要说给你听，说：‘这地方给我居住太狭窄了；求你给我预备地方居住吧！’

你居丧时所生的儿女还要说给你听：‘这地方太窄小了，请你给我们地方居住！’

你必聽見喪子之後所生的兒女說：這地方我居住太窄，求你給我地方居住。

你要再聽見喪失子女後所生的兒女說：「這地方我居住太窄，請你給我地方居住。」

你要再聽見喪失子女後所生的兒女說：「這地方我居住太窄，請你給我地方居住。」

你流亡期間所生的子女必在你耳邊說，『這地方太小了，再給我們一些地方住吧。』

你喪子以後所生的兒女還要說給你聽，說：‘這地方給我居住太狹窄了；求你給我預備地方居住吧！’

你喪子以後所生的兒女還要說給你聽、說：『這地方給我住太窄；請讓位置給我，讓我居住。』

你居喪時所生的兒女還要說給你聽：『這地方太窄小了，請你給我們地方居住！』

爾喪子時所生之子、將附耳語爾曰、壤地褊小、其恢廓之、俾我得居、

昔爾赤子、流離遠徙、一旦旋歸、皆告爾曰、壤地褊小、其恢廓之、則我得所棲止。

昔雖喪子、後仍有多子告爾曰、此地甚狹、當為我恢廓之、使有所居、

The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing,‘ This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’

The children born during your time of sorrow will speak to you. They will say,‘ This city is too small for us. Give us more space to live in.’

The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears:‘ The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.’

The generations born in exile will return and say,‘ We need more room! It’s crowded here!’

Yet as you listen, the children that you have been deprived of will say,‘ This place is too small for me; make room for me so that I may settle.’

The children you lost will yet say in your ears,‘ The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’

The children you will have, After you have lost the others, Will say again in your ears,‘ The place is too small for me; Give me a place where I may dwell.’

The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

Yet as you listen, the children that you have been deprived of will say,‘ This place is too small for me; make room for me so that I may settle.’

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place[ is] too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing,‘ This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ they will be called‘ sons of the living God.’

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

“ Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms.

“ Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.“ Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities.

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha,“ See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying,“ Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”Joshua said to them,“ If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”The children of Joseph said,“ The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

Don’t think to yourselves,‘ We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.For it is written,“ Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.