For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in the reviving of the Jewish church after its return out of captivity, but more fully in the planting of the Christian church by the preaching of the gospel of Christ; and we may take the comfort of these promises. I. That the church shall be replenished with great numbers added to it.
Commenting on Isaiah 49:18-23
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,.... Or "thy land of destruction, or thy destroyed land" (n); 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...
land of thy destruction--thy land once the scene of destruction. too narrow-- (Isa 54:1-2; Zac 10:10).