Isaiah 49:19

“For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, &c.] Or “thy land of destruction, or thy destroyed land”f983; 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…”

“land of thy destruction--thy land once the scene of destruction. too narrow-- (Isa 54:1-2; Zac 10:10).”

“For thy waste and thy desolate places - Thy land over which ruin has been spread, and ever which the exile nation mourns. And the land of thy destruction - That is, thy land laid in ruins. The construction is not uncommon where a noun is used to express the sense of an adjective. Thus in Psalms 2:6, the Hebrew phrase (margin) is correctly rendered ‘my holy hill.’ Here the sense is, that their entire country had been so laid waste as to be a land of desolation. Shall even now be too narrow - Shall be too limited to contain all who shall become converted to the true God. The contracted territory of Palestine shall be incapable of sustaining all who will acknowledge the true God, and who shall…”

“Thy waste places - Thy own land, whereof divers parts lie waste for want of people to possess them. Land of destruction - Which before was desolate and destroyed. Isaiah 49:20”

“49:19-21 The population explosion would reach beyond Israel to include the members of foreign nations who turn to the Lord (see 56:6-8; Rev 7:9). • more room: The expanded population would require space far beyond the traditional boundaries of the land of Israel (see also Zech 2:4).”

“thy waste: Isa 49:8, Isa 51:3, Isa 54:1, Isa 54:2; Jer 30:18, Jer 30:19, Jer 33:10, Jer 33:11; Eze 36:9-15; Hos 1:10, Hos 1:11; Zac 2:4, Zac 2:11, Zac 10:10 they that: Isa 49:17, Isa 49:25, Isa 49:26; Psa 56:1, Psa 56:2, Psa 124:3; Pro 1:12; Jer 30:16, Jer 51:33, Jer 51:44; Eze 36:3 Isaiah 49:20”

“Thus will Zion shine forth once more with the multitude of her children as with a festal adorning. "For thy ruins and thy waste places and thy land full of ruin - yea, now thou wilt be too narrow for the inhabitants, and thy devourers are far away. Thy children, that were formerly taken from thee, shall say in thine ears, The space is too narrow for me; give way for me, that I may have room." The word "for" (kı̄) introduces the explanatory reason for the figures just employed of jewellery and a bridal girdle. Instead of the three subjects, "thy ruins," etc., the comprehensive "thou" is employed permutatively, and the sentence commenced afresh. כּי is repeated emphatically in עתּה כּי (for…”