Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7"For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Isaiah 50:1Thus says the Lord, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds," says the Lord; "because they have called you an outcast, saying, 'It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.'"
Hosea 2:14"Therefore, behold, I will allure her,and bring her into the wilderness,and speak tenderly to her.
Matthew 11:28"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
2 Corinthians 7:9I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us 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 →