Isaiah 54

1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:5 · Ps 67:3 · Ps 98:3 · Ps 113:9 · Song 8:8 · Isa 42:10 · +10 more

2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.Cross-references: Ex 35:18 · Ex 39:40 · Isa 33:20 · Isa 49:19 · Jer 10:20

3For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities.Cross-references: Gen 28:14 · Gen 49:10 · Ps 72:8 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 35:1 · +14 more

4“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.Cross-references: Isa 41:10 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 45:16 · Isa 51:7 · Isa 61:7 · Jer 31:19 · +5 more

5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.Cross-references: Ps 45:10 · Isa 6:3 · Isa 43:14 · Isa 48:2 · Isa 48:17 · Isa 51:15 · +13 more

6For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.Cross-references: Prov 5:18 · Eccl 9:9 · Isa 49:14 · Isa 50:1 · Isa 62:4 · Hos 2:1 · +5 more

7“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 106:47 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 26:20 · Isa 27:12 · +13 more

8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.Cross-references: Ps 13:1 · Ps 27:9 · Ps 103:17 · Isa 8:17 · Isa 45:15 · Isa 47:6 · +12 more

9“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Gen 9:11 · Ps 104:9 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 55:11 · Jer 31:35 · +3 more

10For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:5 · Ps 46:2 · Ps 89:33 · Isa 49:10 · Isa 51:6 · Isa 54:8 · +11 more

11“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:2 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 24:10 · Ex 28:17 · Ex 39:10 · +31 more

12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

13All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Ps 71:17 · Ps 119:165 · Isa 2:3 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 26:3 · +27 more

14You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.Cross-references: Prov 3:25 · Isa 1:26 · Isa 2:4 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 45:24 · Isa 51:13 · +15 more

15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.Cross-references: Ps 37:12 · Isa 41:11 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 43:14 · Ezek 38:8 · Joel 3:9 · +7 more

16“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Prov 16:4 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:15 · Isa 37:26 · Isa 46:11 · +2 more

17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 1:11 · Job 2:5 · Job 22:5 · Job 42:7 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 32:6 · +26 more