Isaiah 54:1-17
54 “Shout joyfully, you barren woman who has not given birth!+
Become cheerful and cry out for joy,+ you who never had birth pains,+For the sons* of the desolate one are more numerousThan the sons of the woman with a husband,”*+ says Jehovah.
2 “Make the place of your tent more spacious.+
Stretch out the tent cloths of your grand tabernacle.
Do not hold back, lengthen your tent cords,And make your tent pins strong.+
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left.
Your offspring will take possession of nations,And they will inhabit the desolated cities.+
4 Do not be afraid,+ for you will not be put to shame;+And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disappointed.
For you will forget the shame of your youth,And the disgrace of your widowhood you will remember no more.”
5 “For your Grand Maker+ is as your husband,*+Jehovah of armies is his name,And the Holy One of Israel is your Repurchaser.+
He will be called the God of the whole earth.+
6 For Jehovah called you as if you were an abandoned wife and grief-stricken,*+Like a wife married in youth and then rejected,” says your God.
7 “For a brief moment I abandoned you,But with great mercy I will gather you back.+
8 In a flood of indignation I hid my face from you for a moment,+But with everlasting loyal love I will have mercy on you,”+ says your Repurchaser,+ Jehovah.
9 “This is like the days of Noah to me.+
Just as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more cover the earth,+So I swear that I will no more become indignant toward you or rebuke you.+
10 For the mountains may be removedAnd the hills may be shaken,But my loyal love will not be removed from you,+Nor will my covenant of peace be shaken,”+ says Jehovah, the One having mercy on you.+
11 “O afflicted woman,+ storm-tossed, uncomforted,+I am laying your stones with hard mortarAnd your foundation with sapphires.+
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,Your gates of sparkling stones,*And all your boundaries of precious stones.
13 And all your sons* will be taught by Jehovah,+And the peace of your sons* will be abundant.+
14 You will be firmly established in righteousness.+
You will be far removed from oppression,+You will fear nothing and have no cause for terror,For it will not come near you.+
15 If anyone should attack you,It will not be at my orders.
Whoever makes an attack on you will fall because of you.”+
16 “Look! I myself created the craftsman,Who blows on the charcoal fire,And his work produces a weapon.
I myself also created the destructive man to bring ruin.+
17 No weapon formed against you will have any success,+And you will condemn any tongue that rises up against you in the judgment.
This is the heritage* of the servants of Jehovah,And their righteousness is from me,” declares Jehovah.+
Footnotes
^ Or “master.”
^ Or “children.”
^ Or “master.”
^ Lit., “hurt in spirit.”
^ Or “of stones of fire.”
^ Or “children.”
^ Or “children.”
^ Or “inheritance.”