Isaiah 54

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Future Blessings for Zion

¹“Shout for joy, O barren woman,

who bears no children;

break forth in song and cry aloud,

you who have never travailed;

because more are the children of the desolate woman

than of her who has a husband,”^a

says the LORD.

¹“Sing out, O barren woman, who has not given birth! Break forth in song and cry aloud, one not having travailed! Because more are the sons of the desolate woman than the sons of the married woman,” says YHWH.

²“Enlarge the site of your tent,

stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,

do not hold back.

Lengthen your ropes

and drive your stakes in deep.^a

²“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings! Do not hold back! Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes!

³For you will spread out to the right and left;

your descendants will dispossess the nations

and inhabit the desolate cities.

³For to the right and to the left you will break through, and your seed will inherit the nations, and will settle the cities left desolate.

⁴Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;

do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated.

For you will forget the shame of your youth

and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

⁴Do not be afraid, for you will not be ashamed; and you should not be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

⁵For your husband is your Maker—

the LORD of Hosts is His name—

the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;

He is called the God of all the earth.

⁵For your husband is your Maker; YHWH of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel—He is called the God of all the earth.

⁶For the LORD has called you back,

like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,

like the rejected wife of one’s youth,”

says your God.

⁶For like a wife forsaken and pained of spirit, YHWH has called you; and a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” says your God.

⁷“For a brief moment I forsook you,

but with great compassion I will bring you back.

⁷“For a small moment I have forsaken you, and with great compassion I will gather you;

⁸In a surge of anger

I hid My face from you for a moment,

but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,”

says the LORD your Redeemer.

⁸in a flood of wrath I hid My face for a moment from you, and with kindness everlasting I will have compassion on you,” says YHWH your Redeemer.

⁹“For to Me this is like the days of Noah,^a

when I swore that the waters of Noah

would never again cover the earth.

So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you

or rebuke you.

⁹“For to Me this is the days of Noah, as when I swore to keep from passing the waters of Noah again over the earth—so have I sworn from being be angry with you and from giving rebuke to you.

¹⁰Though the mountains may be removed

and the hills may be shaken,

My loving devotion will not depart from you,

and My covenant of peace will not be broken,”

says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

¹⁰For the mountains may depart and the hills may be shaken, and My loving devotion will not depart from you, and the covenant of My peace will not be shaken off,” says YHWH, the One having compassion on you.

¹¹“O afflicted city, lashed by storms,

without solace,

surely I will set your stones in antimony

and lay your foundations with sapphires.^a

¹¹“O afflicted one, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I am spreading over your stones in antimony, and I lay your foundations with sapphires.

¹²I will make your pinnacles of rubies,

your gates of sparkling jewels,

and all your walls of precious stones.

¹²And I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of sparkling of stones, and all of your walls of precious stones.

¹³Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD,^a

and great will be their prosperity.

¹³And all your sons will be taught by YHWH, and great will be the peace of your sons.

¹⁴In righteousness you will be established,

far from oppression,

for you will have no fear.

Terror will be far removed,

for it will not come near you.

¹⁴In righteousness you will be established. You will be far away from oppression—for you will not fear, and from terror—for it will not come near to you.

¹⁵If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me;

whoever assails you will fall before you.

¹⁵Behold, the stranger who stirs up trouble—not from Me—who stirs up trouble against you, he will fall before you.

¹⁶Behold, I have created the craftsman

who fans the coals into flame

and forges a weapon fit for its task;

and I have created the destroyer

to wreak havoc.

¹⁶Behold, I myself have created the craftsman, blowing on the fire of the coals and bringing out the tool for his work—and also I have created the destroyer to destroy.

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper,

and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.

This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,

and their vindication is from Me,”

declares the LORD.

¹⁷Every weapon formed against you will not prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you will prove wiched. This is the inheritance of the servants of YHWH, and their righteousness is from Me!—” A declaration of YHWH.