Isaiah 54:1-3

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54 The Lord says, “Sing, ·Jerusalem [^Lbarren one; Gal. 4:27].
    ·You are like a woman who [^L…who] never gave birth to children.
Start singing and shout for joy.
    You never ·felt the pain of giving birth [were in labor],
·but you will have more children [^Lfor more are the children of the desolate one]
    than the woman who has a husband.
² Make your tent bigger;
    stretch ·it [^Lyour tent curtains] out and make it wider.
    Do not hold back.
Make the ·ropes [cords] longer
    and its stakes stronger,
³ because you will spread out to the right and to the left.
    Your ·children [descendants; offspring; seed] will take ·over [possession of] other nations,
and they will ·again live in [resettle] cities that once were ·destroyed [ruined; desolate].