Isaiah 54:2

“Make your tent larger and spread your tent curtains farther out, unsparingly; 1 lengthen your ropes and strengthen your stakes. 1

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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, you barren woman, you who have not given birth; break into joyful singing and cry aloud, you who have never been in birth labor. 1 For the children of the desolate one are more than the children of the married woman,” says Yahweh. 1

3For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left, 1 and your descendants will conquer nations and resettle desolate cities. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 39:40They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance; its ropes and tent pegs; and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

Isaiah 33:20Look at Zion, the city of our feasts; 1 your eyes will see Jerusalem as a quiet habitation, a tent that will not be removed, 1 whose stakes will never be pulled up nor will any of its cords be broken. 1

Jeremiah 10:20My tent is devastated, and all of my tent cords are cut in two. 1 They have taken my children away from me, so they no longer exist. There is no longer anyone to spread out my tent or to raise up my tent curtains. 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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