Isaiah 54:2

“Enlarge the place of your tent, 2 and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; 2 don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 1

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; 2 break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: 2 for the deserted wife will have more children than the children of the married wife,” + 54:1. Quoted in Luke 23:29; Gal 4:27 says Adonai. 1

3For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; 2 and your offspring will possess the nations, 2 and settle in desolate cities. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 39:40the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,

Isaiah 33:20Look at Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], the city of our appointed festivals. 2 Your eyes will see Jerusalem [City of peace], a quiet habitation, 2 a tent that won’t be removed. 1 Its stakes will never be plucked up, 2 nor will any of its cords be broken. 1

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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