Yeshayah 54

¹Sing, O akarah (barren woman) , thou that didst not bear;[#54:1 i.e., Yerushalayim emptied out by the Golus that Isaiah sees coming]

break forth into singing, and shout for joy,

thou that didst not travail with child;

for rabbim bnei shome'mah (more are the children of the desolate woman)

than the bnei be'ulah (children of the married woman) , saith Hashem .

²Enlarge the makom (place, living area) of thy ohel,

and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine mishkenot (tents) ;

spare not, lengthen thy cords,

and thy stakes make chizzuk (stronger) ;

³For thou shalt spread out on the yamin (right hand) and on the smol (left) ;

and thy zera shall inherit the Goyim,

and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

⁴Fear not;

for thou shalt not be ashamed;

neither be thou discouraged;

for thou shalt not suffer disgrace;

for thou shalt forget the boshet alumayich (the shame of thy youth) ,

and shalt not remember any more thy cherpat almenut (reproach of widowhood) .

⁵For thy Oseh (Maker) is thine ba'al (husband) ;

Hashem Tzva'os Shmo;

and thy Go'el is Kadosh Yisroel;

The Elohei Kol HaAretz He is called.

⁶For Hashem hath called thee back,

thou who art like an isha forsaken and atzuvat ruach (grieved in spirit)

as a cast off eshet ne'urim (wife of oneʼs youth) ,

saith thy G-d.

⁷For a rega katon (small moment) have I abandoned thee;

but with rachamim gedolim will I gather thee back.

⁸With a little wrath

I hid My face from thee for a rega (moment) ;

but with chesed olam

will I have rachamim on thee,

saith thy Go'el, Hashem .

⁹For this is as the waters of Noach unto Me;

for as I have sworn that the waters of Noach

should no more cover ha'aretz;

so have I sworn that with thee

I would not be in wrath nor rebuke thee.

¹⁰For the harim (mountains) shall depart,

and the geva'ot (hills) be removed;

but My chesed shall not depart from thee,

neither shall the Brit of My Shalom be removed,

saith Merachamech Hashem ( Hashem the One having rachamim on thee) .

¹¹O thou afflicted one, tempest-tossed and unconsoled,

hinei, I will lay thy stones of glistening colors,

and lay thy yesod (foundation, i.e., figuratively of post-Exilic Jerusalemʼs foundation) with sapphires.

¹²And I will make thy battlements of rubies,

and thy she'arim (gates) of carbuncles,

and all thy walls of avnei chefetz (precious stones) .

¹³And all thy banim shall be taught of Hashem ;

and the shalom of thy banim shall be rav (great) .

¹⁴In tzedakah (righteousness) shalt thou be established;

thou shalt be far from oshek (oppression, tyranny) ; f

or thou shalt not fear;

and thou shalt be far from mechitah (terror) ;

for it shall not come near thee.

¹⁵Indeed, if attacking they stir up strife, it is not from Me;

whosoever shall gather together against thee, yipol (he shall fall) for thy sake.

¹⁶See, I have created the charash (ironsmith, blacksmith)

that fanneth the red-hot coals in the eish (fire) ,

the one forging a keli (an instrument) for his ma'aseh (work) ;

and I have created the mashchit (destroyer, waster, spoiler) to destroy.

¹⁷No keli (weapon, instrument) that is formed

against thee shall prosper;

and every leshon (tongue) that shall rise against thee in mishpat (judgment, accusation)

tarshi'i (thou shalt condemn, prove false, refute, prove wrong) .

This is the nachalat avdei Hashem (the heritage of the servants of Hashem ) ,

and their tzedakah (righteousness, vindication) is from Me, saith Hashem .