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Isaiah 49:20 — compare English translations

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    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.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Yet the sons of your bereavements will say in your ears, ‘The place too narrow for me; draw near to me, I may dwell.’

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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