Isaiah 54

¹ “Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear. Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

² “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations. Don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

³ For you will spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.

⁴ Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed; for you will forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he will be called the God of the whole earth.

⁶ For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

⁷ “For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

⁸ In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

⁹ “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

¹⁰ For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

¹¹ “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

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

¹³ All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and the peace of your children will be great.

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

¹⁵ Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the blacksmith who blows the fire of coals, and brings out a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against you will prosper. Every tongue that rises against you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.