Future Blessings for Zion

1“Sing out, O barren woman,

who has not given birth!

Break forth in song and cry aloud,

one not having travailed!

Because more are the sons of the desolate woman

than the sons of the married woman,†”

says YHWH.

2“Enlarge the place of your tent,

and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings!

Do not hold back!

Lengthen your cords

and strengthen your stakes!†

3For to the right and to the left you will break through,

and your seed will inherit the nations,

and will settle the cities left desolate.

4Do not be afraid, for you will not be ashamed;

and you should not be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;

for you will forget the shame of your youth,

and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

5For your husband is your Maker;

YHWH of Hosts is His name;

and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel—

He is called the God of all the earth.

6For like a wife forsaken and pained of spirit,

YHWH has called you;

and a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”

says your God.

7“For a small moment I have forsaken you,

and with great compassion I will gather you;

8in a flood of wrath

I hid My face for a moment from you,

and with kindness everlasting I will have compassion on you,”

says YHWH your Redeemer.

9“For to Me this is the days of Noah,†

as when I swore to keep from passing the waters of Noah

again over the earth—

so have I sworn from being be angry with you

and from giving rebuke to you.

10For the mountains may depart

and the hills may be shaken,

and My loving devotion will not depart from you,

and the covenant of My peace will not be shaken off,”

says YHWH, the One having compassion on you.

11“O afflicted one, tossed with tempest,

not comforted!

Behold, I am spreading over your stones in antimony,

and I lay your foundations with sapphires.†

12And I will make your pinnacles of rubies,

and your gates of sparkling of stones,

and all of your walls of precious stones.

13And all your sons will be taught by YHWH,†

and great will be the peace of your sons.

14In righteousness you will be established.

You will be far away from oppression—

for you will not fear,

and from terror—

for it will not come near to you.

15Behold, the stranger who stirs up trouble—not from Me—

who stirs up trouble against you, he will fall before you.

16Behold, I myself have created the craftsman,

blowing on the fire of the coals

and bringing out the tool for his work—

and also I have created the destroyer

to destroy.

17Every weapon formed against you will not prosper,

and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you will prove wiched.

This is the inheritance of the servants of YHWH,

and their righteousness is from Me!—”

A declaration of YHWH.