Barren and once-forsaken, Zion is told to sing and enlarge her tent, for her children will outnumber the married wife's and her seed will possess nations and repopulate desolate cities.

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Barren and once-forsaken, Zion is told to sing and enlarge her tent, for her children will outnumber the married wife's and her seed will possess nations and repopulate desolate cities. Her Maker is her husband (Jehovah of hosts, the Holy One of Israel, her Redeemer) who forsook her for a small moment but gathers her with everlasting lovingkindness. The oath parallels the waters of Noah: as those waters will not again cover the earth, so his wrath is sworn away; mountains may depart, but his covenant of peace will not be removed. The storm-tossed city is rebuilt in jewels (foundations of sapphires, pinnacles of rubies, gates of carbuncles), her children all taught of Jehovah, established in righteousness far from oppression and terror. Because Jehovah created the smith who forges every weapon, no weapon formed against her prospers, and every accusing tongue is condemned: this is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–8 Sing, O Barren: Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent
B. 9–17 The Waters of Noah, and No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper

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- Hosea 2:1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
- Hosea 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
- Hosea 2:19So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
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- Isaiah 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
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1 Peter 22 verses
- 1 Peter 2:4As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- 1 Peter 2:6For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
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Jeremiah 312 verses
- Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
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- Jeremiah 30:10As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
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Isaiah 621 verse
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Galatians 41 verse
- Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
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1 Samuel 21 verse
- 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.