en_tn_lite_do_not_use/isa/49/19.md

translationWords

• en:tw:desolate
• en:tw:devour
• en:tw:ruin
• en:tw:waste

translationNotes

• Yahweh continues speaking to Zion as if it were a person, a widow.
• Though you were a waste and desolate - "Though the enemy left you destroyed and empty"
• **bereavement - ** - ** This refers to the time when the Israelites were in exile in Babylon.
• The children born during the time of your bereavement - AT: "The children born during the exile" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)