Isaiah 54:1-10
The Fertility of Zion
1 “ aShout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child;
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor;
For the sons of the bdesolate one will be cmore numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.
2 “ dEnlarge the place of your tent;
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▼Lit Let them stretch out
Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them; Lengthen your fropes
And strengthen your gpegs.
3 “For you will hspread out to the right and to the left.
And your ▼
▼Lit seed
descendants will jpossess nations And will kresettle the desolate cities.
4 “Fear not, for you will lnot be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the mshame of your youth,
And no longer remember the ndisgrace of your widowhood.
5 “For your ohusband is your Maker,
Whose name is the Lord of armies;
And your pRedeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the qGod of all the earth.
6 “For the Lord has called you,
Like a wife rforsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.
7 “ ▼
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For a tbrief moment I abandoned you, But with great compassion I will ugather you.
8 “In an ▼
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,
woutburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting xfavor I will yhave compassion on you,”
Says the Lord your zRedeemer.
9 “For ▼
▼Some mss the waters of Noah this is to Me
this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would abnot ▼
▼Lit cross over
flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will adnot be angry with you
Nor rebuke you.
10 “For the aemountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My ▼
▼Or faithfulness
favor will not be removed from you, Nor will My agcovenant of peace be shaken,”
Says ahthe Lord who has compassion on you.
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