The children … other Lit. the sons of thy bereavement, i.e. those born to thee in the time of thy bereavement (see Isaiah 49:21).

shall yet say in thine ears The mother overhears the talk of her vigorous and enterprising offspring.

the place is too strait for me Cf. 2 Kings 6:1.

Give place to me This peculiar sense of the verb (usually "draw near") finds an exact parallel in Genesis 19:9. Comp. Isaiah 65:5, "draw near to thyself" = "stand off," a different, but synonymous verb.

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