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Make your tent larger,
stretch your tent curtains farther out![a]
Spare no effort,
lengthen your ropes,
and pound your stakes deep.[b]
For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your children will conquer[c] nations
and will resettle desolate cities.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:2 tn Heb “the curtains of your dwelling places let them stretch out.”
  2. Isaiah 54:2 tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”
  3. Isaiah 54:3 tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”

“Enlarge the place of your tent,(A)
    stretch your tent curtains wide,
    do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
    strengthen your stakes.(B)
For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
    your descendants(C) will dispossess nations(D)
    and settle in their desolate(E) cities.

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