Isaiah 54:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 54:2

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

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ASV

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.

KJV

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

Let us come to spiritual understanding. He who is in a tabernacle does not possess a firm and permanent dwelling; but he always changes places and hastens to go further, saying in the psalm: 'I will pass to the place of the wonderful tabernacle' (Ps. XLI, 5), forgetting the things that are past and extending himself into the future, until he reaches the reward of the heavenly calling. We read about this tabernacle and in another place: How lovely are your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Enlarge the place of thy tent - The same idea occurs in Isa 49:19-20 (see the notes at that chapter). The curtains of thy habitations. The word ‘curtain’ does not quite express the sense here. It is commonly with us used to denote the cloth hanging round. a bed or at a window, which may be spread or drawn aside at pleasure, or the hanging in theaters to conceal the stage from the spectators.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַרְחִ֣יבִי׀	har.Chi.vi	enlarge	H7337 →
מְק֣וֹם	me.Kom	[the] place of	H4725 →
אָהֳלֵ֗ךְ	'o.ho.Lekh	tent your	H168 →
וִירִיע֧וֹת	vi.ri.'ot	and [the] tent curtains of	H3407 →
מִשְׁכְּנוֹתַ֛יִךְ	mish.ke.no.Ta.yikh	dwellings your	H4908 →
יַטּ֖וּ	ya.Tu	may people stretch out	H5186 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תַּחְשֹׂ֑כִי	tach.So.khi	you refrain	H2820 →
הַאֲרִ֙יכִי֙	ha.'a.Ri.khi	make long	H748 →
מֵֽיתָרַ֔יִךְ	mei.ta.Ra.yikh	tent cords your	H4340 →
וִיתֵדֹתַ֖יִךְ	vi.te.do.Ta.yikh	and tent pegs your	H3489 →
חַזֵּֽקִי׃	cha.Ze.ki	make strong	H2388 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 10:20
My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
leads to
- Jeremiah 4:20
  Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 31:15
  This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Isaiah 49:20–22
  Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
Through
Exodus 35:18
the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, along with their ropes;
leads to
- Exodus 27:19
  All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.
Through
Isaiah 33:20
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any…
leads to
- Psalms 46:5
  God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
- Isaiah 32:18
  Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.
- Psalms 78:68–69
  But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Psalms 128:5
  May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah