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.’

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 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.’

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

“ Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ they will be called‘ children of the living God.’

The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

“ Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip.

“ Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.“ Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

The company of the prophets said to Elisha,“ Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

The people of Joseph said to Joshua,“ Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the Lord has blessed us abundantly.”“ If you are so numerous,” Joshua answered,“ and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.”The people of Joseph replied,“ The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

And do not think you can say to yourselves,‘ We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.For it is written:“ Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.