Isaiah 54

People Will Return to Jerusalem

1 The Lord says, “Sing, Jerusalem. You are like a woman who never gave birth to children.
Start singing and shout for joy. You never felt the pain of giving birth,
but you will have more children than the woman who has a husband.

2 Make your tent bigger; stretch it out and make it wider. Do not hold back.
Make the ropes longer and its stakes stronger,

3 because you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your children will take over other nations, and they will again live in cities that once were destroyed.

4 “Don’t be afraid, because you will not be ashamed. Don’t be embarrassed, because you will not be disgraced.
You will forget the shame you felt earlier; you will not remember the shame you felt when you lost your husband.

5 The God who made you is like your husband. His name is the Lord All-Powerful.
The Holy One of Israel is the one who saves you. He is called the God of all the earth.

6 You were like a woman whose husband left her, and you were very sad.
You were like a wife who married young and then her husband left her.
But the Lord called you to be his,” says your God.

7 God says, “I left you for a short time, but with great kindness I will bring you back again.

8 I became very angry and hid from you for a time,
but I will show you mercy with kindness forever,” says the Lord who saves you.

9 The Lord says, “This day is like the time of Noah to me. I promised then that I would never flood the world again.
In the same way, I promise I will not be angry with you or punish you again.

10 The mountains may disappear, and the hills may come to an end,
but my love will never disappear; my promise of peace will not come to an end,” says the Lord who shows mercy to you.

11 “You poor city. Storms have hurt you, and you have not been comforted.
But I will rebuild you with turquoise stones, and I will build your foundations with sapphires.

12 I will use rubies to build your walls and shining jewels for the gates and precious jewels for all your outer walls.

13 All your children will be taught by the Lord, and they will have much peace.

14 I will build you using fairness.
You will be safe from those who would hurt you, so you will have nothing to fear. Nothing will come to make you afraid.

15 I will not send anyone to attack you, and you will defeat those who do attack you.

16 “See, I made the blacksmith. He fans the fire to make it hotter, and he makes the kind of tool he wants.
In the same way I have made the destroyer to destroy.

17 So no weapon that is used against you will defeat you. You will show that those who speak against you are wrong.
These are the good things my servants receive. Their victory comes from me,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 54

1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.3 For thou shalt spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.5 For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.6 For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.12 And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.13 And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of thee.16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.