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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/53.htm" title="Isaiah 53">◄</a> Isaiah 54 <a href="../isaiah/55.htm" title="Isaiah 55">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29054" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29054" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">The New Zion</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054001" class="ver">1</span>Raise a glad cry, you barren one<a id="rfn29054001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054001-1">*</a> who never bore a child,</p> <p class="sl1">break forth in jubilant song, you who have never been in labor,</p> <p class="sl">For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife</p> <p class="sl1">than the children of her who has a husband,</p> <p class="sl1">says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren29054001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054002" class="ver">2</span>Enlarge the space for your tent,</p> <p class="sl1">spread out your tent cloths unsparingly;</p> <p class="sl1">lengthen your ropes and make firm your pegs.<a id="ren29054002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054003" class="ver">3</span>For you shall spread abroad to the right and left;</p> <p class="sl1">your descendants shall dispossess the nations</p> <p class="sl1">and shall people the deserted cities.<a id="rfn29054003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054003-1">*</a></p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054004" class="ver">4</span><a id="rfn29054004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054004-1">*</a> Do not fear, you shall not be put to shame;</p> <p class="sl1">do not be discouraged, you shall not be disgraced.</p> <p class="sl">For the shame of your youth you shall forget,</p> <p class="sl1">the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054005" class="ver">5</span>For your husband is your Maker;</p> <p class="sl1">the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts is his name,</p> <p class="sl">Your redeemer,<a id="rfn29054005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054005-1">*</a> the Holy One of Israel,</p> <p class="sl1">called God of all the earth.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054006" class="ver">6</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> calls you back,</p> <p class="sl1">like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,</p> <p class="sl">A wife married in youth and then cast off,</p> <p class="sl1">says your God.<a id="ren29054006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054006-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054007" class="ver">7</span>For a brief moment I abandoned you,</p> <p class="sl1">but with great tenderness I will take you back.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054008" class="ver">8</span>In an outburst of wrath, for a moment</p> <p class="sl1">I hid my face from you;</p> <p class="sl">But with enduring love I take pity on you,</p> <p class="sl1">says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your redeemer.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054009" class="ver">9</span>This is for me like the days of Noah:</p> <p class="sl">As I swore then that the waters of Noah</p> <p class="sl1">should never again flood the earth,</p> <p class="sl">So I have sworn now not to be angry with you,</p> <p class="sl1">or to rebuke you.<a id="ren29054009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054010" class="ver">10</span>Though the mountains fall away</p> <p class="sl1">and the hills be shaken,</p> <p class="sl">My love shall never fall away from you</p> <p class="sl1">nor my covenant of peace<a id="rfn29054010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054010-1">*</a> be shaken,</p> <p class="sl1">says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, who has mercy on you.<a id="ren29054010-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054010-e">e</a></p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054011" class="ver">11</span>O afflicted one,<a id="rfn29054011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29054011-1">*</a> storm-battered and unconsoled,</p> <p class="sl1">I lay your pavements in carnelians,</p> <p class="sl1">your foundations in sapphires;<a id="ren29054011-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29054011-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054012" class="ver">12</span>I will make your battlements of rubies,</p> <p class="sl1">your gates of jewels,</p> <p class="sl1">and all your walls of precious stones.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054013" class="ver">13</span>All your children shall be taught by the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>;</p> <p class="sl1">great shall be the peace of your children.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054014" class="ver">14</span>In justice shall you be established,</p> <p class="sl1">far from oppression, you shall not fear,</p> <p class="sl1">from destruction, it cannot come near.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054015" class="ver">15</span>If there be an attack, it is not my doing;</p> <p class="sl1">whoever attacks shall fall before you.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29054016" class="ver">16</span>See, I have created the smith</p> <p class="sl1">who blows on the burning coals</p> <p class="sl1">and forges weapons as his work;</p> <p class="sl">It is I also who have created</p> <p class="sl1">the destroyer to work havoc.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29054017" class="ver">17</span>Every weapon fashioned against you shall fail;</p> <p class="sl1">every tongue that brings you to trial</p> <p class="sl1">you shall prove false.</p> <p class="slf">This is the lot of the servants of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">their vindication from me—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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