[a]Enlarge the place of thy tents, and let them spread out the curtains of thine habitations: spare not: stretch out thy cords, and make fast thy stakes.

For thou shalt increase on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall possess the Gentiles, and dwell in the desolate cities.

Fear not: for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither shalt thou be confounded: for thou shalt not be put to shame: yea, thou shalt forget the shame of thy [b]youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy [c]widowhood anymore.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:2 Signifying, that for the great number of children that God should give her, she should seem to lack room to lodge them.
  2. Isaiah 54:4 The afflictions which thou suffered at the beginning.
  3. Isaiah 54:4 When as thou wast refused for thy sins, Isa. 50:1.

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