Isaiah 54:1

Yahweh says, “You people of Jerusalem [MET], start to sing! You who are like [MET] women who have never given birth to children, sing loudly and shout joyfully, because you, who are like [MET] childless women who have been abandoned by their husbands, will soon have more children than women who have never had any children.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Make your tents larger; make them wider, and fasten them firmly with tent pegs.

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Cross References

Psalms 67:3God, I desire that all people-groups will praise you; I want them all to praise you!

Psalms 113:9He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!

Isaiah 42:10Sing a new song to Yahweh! Sing to praise him throughout the world! All you people who sail across the oceans, and all you creatures that live in the oceans, and all you people who live on islands far away, sing!

Isaiah 49:13Because of what Yahweh has promised to do, everything should shout joyfully— the sky and the earth and the mountains should sing, because Yahweh comforts his people, and he will pity those who are suffering.

Isaiah 55:12You will leave Babylon joyfully, you will have peace as I lead you out. It will be as though the hills and mountains will sing joyfully, and the trees in the fields will clap their hands.

Zephaniah 3:14You people who live in Jerusalem [DOU] and other places in Israel, sing and shout loudly! Be glad, and rejoice [DOU] greatly,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 54:1

The death of Christ is the life of the church and of all that truly belong to it; and therefore very fitly, after the prophet had foretold the sufferings of Christ, he foretels the flourishing of the church, which is a part of his glory, and that exaltation of him which was the reward of his humiliation: it was promised him that he should see his seed, and this chapter is an explication of that promise. It may easily be granted that it has a primary reference to the welfare and prosperity of the Jewish church… Read the whole commentary →

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