Isaiah 54

Isaiah 54, verse 1. ¹“Be glad, O barren woman who does not bear; break forth and cry out, you who are not in travail, for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord. Isaiah 54, verse 2. ²“Enlarge the place of your tent and courtyard; set it up; do not avoid it; lengthen your ropes and strengthen your pegs. Isaiah 54, verse 3. ³Spread out further to the right and the left, and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles. You shall cause the desolate cities to be inhabited. Isaiah 54, verse 4. ⁴Fear not that you were shamed, neither be confounded and disgraced; for you will forget your former shame and will not remember the disgrace of your widowhood. Isaiah 54, verse 5. ⁵For it is the Lord who is your Maker; the Lord of hosts is His name. He is your Deliverer, and He shall be called the God of Israel by all the earth. Isaiah 54, verse 6. ⁶The Lord has not called you like a woman forsaken and fainthearted, nor like a wife hated from her youth,” says your God. Isaiah 54, verse 7. ⁷“I forsook you for a short while, but with great compassion I will have mercy on you. Isaiah 54, verse 8. ⁸In a little anger I turned away My face from you, but in everlasting compassion I will have mercy on you,” says the Lord who delivered you. Isaiah 54, verse 9. ⁹“This little anger is to Me as it was at the time of Noah's Flood, when I swore to him regarding the earth, that I would no longer be angry with it, neither would I again threaten to remove its mountains nor move its hills. Isaiah 54, verse 10. ¹⁰So neither shall My compassion fail you, nor shall your covenant of peace be removed; for the Lord who is merciful to you has spoken. Isaiah 54, verse 11. ¹¹“Servile and unstable, you were not comforted. Behold, I am preparing you carbuncle for your stone and sapphire for your foundations, Isaiah 54, verse 12. ¹²and I will make your battlements jasper and your gates crystal stones, and the enclosing wall of your temple choice stones. Isaiah 54, verse 13. ¹³I will cause all your children to be taught by God, and your children to be in great peace. Isaiah 54, verse 14. ¹⁴You shall be built in righteousness. Keep away from wrongdoing, and you will not be afraid, and trembling shall not come near you. Isaiah 54, verse 15. ¹⁵Behold, resident aliens shall come to you because of Me, and they shall flee to you. Isaiah 54, verse 16. ¹⁶Behold, I created you, not as a metalworker who blows coals in the fire and brings out a vessel fit for work; and I created you, not for ruin so as to destroy you. Isaiah 54, verse 17. ¹⁷I will not prosper any instrument of destruction used against you, and every voice raised against you in judgment, you shall overcome them all; and your adversaries shall be judged guilty. This is the inheritance for those who serve the Lord, and you shall be my righteous ones,” says the Lord.