Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 54

, — you who never gave birth! Break into loud, joyful shouts, you who never went through labor! Because the will have more children than the woman who has a husband, says Yahweh.Make your bigger — stretch it wide! Spread out the fabric of your dwelling without holding back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your in deep.Because you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your will take over and resettle cities that were left in ruins.Don’t be afraid — you won’t be put to . Don’t hold back — you won’t be humiliated. You’ll forget the shame of your youth and never again remember the disgrace of your .Because your is your , is his name. is the one who you. He is called God of the whole earth.Yahweh has like a wife who was abandoned and — a wife married young and then rejected, says your God.“For just a I abandoned you, but with I will gather you back.In a I hid my face from you for a moment, but with I will have compassion on you,” says Yahweh, .“This is like the for me — just as I that Noah’s floodwaters would never cover the earth again, so now I swear I will never be angry with you or rebuke you again.Even if the mountains shift and the hills are shaken loose, my for you will never shift and my with you will never be shaken,” says Yahweh, who has on you.“You city, , with no one to comfort you — look, I am setting your stones in and laying your foundations with .I will make your towers out of , your gates out of , and all your walls out of precious stones.All your children will be , and your children will have .You will be established through . You will be far from — you’ll have nothing to fear. Terror will not come near you.If anyone does you, it won’t be from me. Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.“Look — I created the who fans the coals into flame and forges weapons for their purpose. And I created the to bring ruin.No against you will succeed, and you will prove wrong every tongue that accuses you. This is what Yahweh’s — their comes from me,” declares Yahweh.