54:1 “Shout 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 desolate one will be more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the LORD.
54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent;
①Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them;
Lengthen your ropes
And strengthen your pegs.
▷ ①Lit Let them stretch out
54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left.
And your ①descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.
▷ ①Lit seed
54:4 “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.
54:5 For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the LORD of armies;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the God of all the earth.
54:6 For the LORD has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.
54:7 “ ①For a brief moment I abandoned you,
But with great compassion I will gather you.
▷ ①Lit In
54:8 In an ①outburst of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting favor I will have compassion on you,”
Says the LORD your Redeemer.
▷ ①Lit overflowing
54:9 “For ①this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would not ②flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor rebuke you.
▷ ①Some mss the waters of Noah this is to Me ②Lit cross over
54:10 For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My ①favor will not be removed from you,
Nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,”
Says the LORD who has compassion on you.
▷ ①Or faithfulness
54:11 “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And I will lay your foundations with ①sapphires.
▷ ①Or lapis lazuli
54:12 Moreover, I will make your battlements of ①rubies,
And your gates of ②crystal,
And your entire ③wall of precious stones.
▷ ①I.e., bright red ②Or carbuncles ③Lit border, boundary
54:13 All your sons will be ①taught by the LORD;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.
▷ ①Or disciples of
54:14 In righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear;
And from terror, for it will not come near you.
54:15 If anyone fiercely attacks you, it will not be from Me.
Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.
54:16 Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals
And produces a weapon for its work;
And I have created the destroyer to inflict ruin.
54:17 No weapon that is formed against you will succeed;
And you will condemn every tongue that ①accuses you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
▷ ①Lit rises against