1 “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth!
Break out into singing, and cry aloud,
you who didn’t travail with child!
For more are the children of the desolate than
the children ofthe married wife,” says Yahweh.

2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
and letthem stretch outthe curtains of
your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen
your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

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

4 “Don’t be afraid, for you will not be
ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not
be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your
youth. You will remember the reproach of
your widowhood no more.

5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh
of Armies is his name. The Holy One of
Israel is your Redeemer. He will be
called the God of the whole earth.

6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife
forsaken and grieved in spirit,
even a wife of youth, when she is cast
off,” says your God.

7 “For a small momentI have forsaken you,
but I will gather you with great mercies.

8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from
you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I
will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to me;
for as I have sworn that the waters of
Noah will no more go over the earth,
so I have sworn thatI will not be angry
with you, nor rebuke you.