Isaiah 54

¹Isaiah 54:1. “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.²Isaiah 54:2. “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.³Isaiah 54:3. For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.⁴Isaiah 54:4. Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.⁵Isaiah 54:5. For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.⁶Isaiah 54:6. For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.⁷Isaiah 54:7. “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.⁸Isaiah 54:8. In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.⁹Isaiah 54:9. “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.¹⁰Isaiah 54:10. Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.¹¹Isaiah 54:11. “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.¹²Isaiah 54:12. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.¹³Isaiah 54:13. Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.¹⁴Isaiah 54:14. In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.¹⁵Isaiah 54:15. If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.¹⁶Isaiah 54:16. Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.¹⁷Isaiah 54:17. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.