Isaiah, 54

1. Raise a glad cry, you barren one who did not bear, break forth in jubilant song, you who were not in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the LORD.

1. Shout for joy, barren one who has borne no children! Break into cries and shouts of joy, you who were never in labour! For the children of the forsaken one are more in number than the children of the wedded wife, says Yahweh.

2. Enlarge the space for your tent, spread out your tent cloths unsparingly; lengthen your ropes and make firm your stakes.

2. Widen the space of your tent, extend the curtains of your home, do not hold back! Lengthen your ropes, make your tent-pegs firm,

3. For you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left; Your descendants shall dispossess the nations and shall people the desolate cities.

3. for you will burst out to right and to left, your race will dispossess the nations and repopulate deserted towns.

4. Fear not, you shall not be put to shame; you need not blush, for you shall not be disgraced. The shame of your youth you shall forget, the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.

4. Do not fear, you will not be put to shame again, do not worry, you will not be disgraced again; for you will forget the shame of your youth and no longer remember the dishonour of your widowhood.

5. For he who has become your husband is your Maker; his name is the LORD of hosts; Your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the earth.

5. For your Creator is your husband, Yahweh Sabaoth is his name, the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, he is called God of the whole world.

6. The LORD calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says your God.

6. Yes, Yahweh has called you back like a forsaken, grief-stricken wife, like the repudiated wife of his youth, says your God.

7. For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.

7. I did forsake you for a brief moment, but in great compassion I shall take you back.

8. In an outburst of wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you; But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the LORD, your redeemer.

8. In a flood of anger, for a moment I hid my face from you. But in everlasting love I have taken pity on you, says Yahweh, your redeemer.

9. This is for me like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah should never again deluge the earth; So I have sworn not to be angry with you, or to rebuke you.

9. For me it will be as in the days of Noah when I swore that Noah's waters should never flood the world again. So now I swear never to be angry with you and never to rebuke you again.

10. Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken, My love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

10. For the mountains may go away and the hills may totter, but my faithful love will never leave you, my covenant of peace will never totter, says Yahweh who takes pity on you.

11. O afflicted one, storm-battered and unconsoled, I lay your pavements in carnelians, and your foundations in sapphires;

11. Unhappy creature, storm-tossed, unpitied, look, I shall lay your stones on agates and your foundations on sapphires.

12. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of carbuncles, and all your walls of precious stones.

12. I shall make your battlements rubies, your gateways firestone and your entire wall precious stones.

13. All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

13. All your children will be taught by Yahweh and great will be your children's prosperity.

14. In justice shall you be established, far from the fear of oppression, where destruction cannot come near you.

14. In saving justice you will be made firm, free from oppression: you will have nothing to fear; free from terror: it will not approach you.

15. Should there be any attack, it shall not be of my making; whoever attacks you shall fall before you.

15. Should anyone attack you, that will not be my doing, and whoever does attack you, for your sake will fall.

16. Lo, I have created the craftsman who blows on the burning coals and forges weapons as his work; It is I also who have created the destroyer to work havoc.

16. I created the smith who blows on the charcoal-fire to produce a weapon for his use; I also created the destroyer to ruin it.

17. No weapon fashioned against you shall prevail; every tongue you shall prove false that launches an accusation against you. This is the lot of the servants of the LORD, their vindication from me, says the LORD.

17. No weapon forged against you will succeed. Any voice raised against you in court you will refute. Such is the lot of the servants of Yahweh, the saving justice I assure them, declares Yahweh.