Isaiah 54:6

For Hashem hath called thee back, 1 thou who art like an isha forsaken and atzuvat ruach (grieved in spirit) 1 as a cast off eshet ne'urim (wife of oneʼs youth), 1 saith thy G-d. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

In Context

5For thy Oseh (Maker) is thine ba'al (husband); 1 Hashem Tzva'os Shmo; 1 and thy Go'el is Kadosh Yisroel; 1 The Elohei Kol HaAretz He is called. 1

7For a rega katon (small moment) have I abandoned thee; 1 but with rachamim gedolim will I gather thee back. 1

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the isha whom thou lovest all the days of thy chayyei hevel, which he hath given thee under the shemesh, all the days of thy hevel; for that is thy chelek in this life, and in thy amal (toil) which thou laborest under the shemesh.

Isaiah 50:1Thus saith Hashem: 1 Where is the Sefer Keritut (Bill of Divorce) 1 by which I sent your Em (Mother) away? 1 Or which Nosheh (Creditor) of Mine is it 1 to whom I have sold you [into slavery]? 1 Behold, for your avonot (iniquities) have ye been sold, 1 and for your peysha'im (rebellions) was your Em sent away. 1

Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, 1 and I will heal thee of thy makkot (wounds), saith Hashem; 1 because they called thee a Nidachah (Outcast), saying: 1 This is Tziyon, whom no one careth for. 1

Hosea 2:14And I will destroy her gefanim (vines) and her te'enim (fig trees), 1 whereof she hath said: These are my etnan (harlotʼs wages) 1 that my lovers have given me; 1 and I will make them a forest, 1 and the wild beasts of the sadeh shall devour them. 1

Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who are burden-weary and heavy laden, and I will give you Shabbos menuchah.

2 Corinthians 7:9Now I have simcha, not that you had agmat nefesh, but that your grief brought you to teshuva, for your agmat nefesh was in Hashem, so that by us you suffered in nothing.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 54:2-6

The Prosperity of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord . 2 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; 3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the… Read the whole commentary →

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