﻿Isaiah.
Chapter 54.
“Sing for joy, barren one who has not borne! Break into singing and shout, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. 
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not hold back; lengthen your ropes and strengthen your stakes. 
For you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your offspring will possess nations and populate desolate cities. 
Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; do not be dismayed, for you will not be disgraced. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. 
For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; he will be called the God of all the earth. 
For the LORD has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth who has been rejected,” says your God. 
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. 
In an outburst of wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting steadfast love I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer. 
“This is like the waters of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah would never again pass over the earth, so I have sworn not to be angry with you or rebuke you. 
Though the mountains depart and the hills totter, my steadfast love will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not totter,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you. 
“Afflicted one, tossed by storms and not comforted, look, I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires. 
I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling stones, and all your border of precious stones. 
All your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be the peace of your children. 
You will be established in righteousness. Stay far from oppression, for you will not fear, and from terror, for it will not come near you. 
Look, if anyone gathers against you, it will not be from me. Whoever gathers against you will fall because of you. 
Look, I have created the smith who blows on the coals in the fire and produces a tool for his work. I have also created the destroyer to destroy. 
No weapon formed against you will prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from me,” declares the LORD. 
