54 “Sing, barren one, who has not given birth.
burst into singing and shout,
you who have not travailed.
For more are the children of the desolate
than the children of the married one,”
    says Adonai.
² “Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch out your tabernacle curtains.
Do not hold back—
    lengthen your cords,
    strengthen your stakes.
³ For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left.
Your offspring will possess the nations
and will resettle the desolate cities.
⁴ Fear not, for you will not be ashamed.
Nor cringe, for you will not be disgraced.
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
and you will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.
⁵ For your Maker is your husband^[a]
—Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
He will be called God of all the earth.
⁶ “For Adonai has called you back
like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of one’s youth that is rejected,”
    says your God.
⁷ “For a brief moment I deserted you,
but I will regather you with great compassion.
⁸ In a surge of anger
I hid My face from you a moment,
but with everlasting kindness
    I will have compassion on you,”
    says Adonai your Redeemer.
⁹ “For this is like the waters of Noah to Me:
for as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more cover the earth,
    so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you,
    nor will I rebuke you.
¹⁰ Though the mountains depart and the hills be shaken,
My love will not depart from you,
nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,
says Adonai who has compassion on you.
¹¹ Afflicted one, storm-tossed, unconsoled,
behold, I set your stones in antimony,
    lay your foundations with sapphires,
¹² make your pinnacles of rubies,
    your gates of crystal,
    and all your walls of precious stones.
¹³ All your children will be taught by Adonai.
Your children will have great shalom.

¹⁴ “In righteousness you will be established.
You will be far from oppression
    —for you will not fear—
and from terror—
    for it will not come near you.
¹⁵ Behold, anyone fiercely attacking is not from Me.
Whoever stirs up strife with you will fall because of you.
¹⁶ Behold, I created the smith
who blows the fire of coals
and produces a weapon for its work,
and I created the destroyer to ruin.
¹⁷ No weapon formed against you will prosper
and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of Adonai’s servants—
their vindication is from Me.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.

55 “Ho, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the water,^[b]
and you who have no money,
    come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without cost!
² Why do you spend money for what is not bread?
Your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourself in abundance.
³ Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, so that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the trustworthy loyalty to David.
⁴ Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
    a leader and commander for the peoples.
⁵ Behold, you will summon a nation you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you will run to you,
because of Adonai your God
    and the Holy One of Israel,
    for He has glorified you.”

“Preserve justice,
do righteousness.
For My salvation is about to come,
and My righteousness to be revealed.
² Blessed is the one who does this,
the son of man who takes hold of it,
who keeps from profaning Shabbat,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
³ Do not let a son of a foreigner who has joined himself to Adonai^[d] say,
‘Adonai will surely exclude me from His people.”
Nor let the eunuch say,
    ‘Behold, I am a dry tree.’”
⁴ For thus says Adonai,
“To the eunuchs who keep My Shabbatot,
    who choose what pleases Me,
    and hold fast My covenant:
⁵ I will give to them in My House and within My walls
    a memorial and a name^[e]
    better than sons and daughters.
I will give them an everlasting name
    that will not be cut off.
⁶ Also the foreigners who join themselves to Adonai, to minister to Him,
and to love the Name of Adonai,
and to be His servants—
all who keep from profaning Shabbat,
and hold fast to My covenant—
⁷ these I will bring to My holy mountain,
and let them rejoice in My House of Prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
    will be acceptable on My altar.
For My House will be called
    a House of Prayer for all nations.”^[f]
8 Adonai Elohim,
    who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“I will gather still others to him,
    to those already gathered.”

57 The righteous one perishes,
    but no one takes it to heart.
Godly men are taken away,
    but no one discerns
        that the righteous man is taken from evil.
² He enters into shalom.
    They rest on their beds,
    each who walked in his integrity.
³ But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.

¹ For the music director, of David, for a memorial.
² O God, come quickly to deliver me,
Adonai, to help me.
³ May they be put to shame and disgrace
    who seek my life.
May they be turned back in humiliation
    who delight in my hurt.
⁴ May those who say, “Aha! Aha!”
    be turned away because of their shame.
⁵ But may all who seek You
    rejoice and be glad in You.
May those who love Your salvation
    always say, “Let God be magnified.”

⁸ One who plots evil will be called a schemer.