1 Rejoice, you barren that do not bear; break forth and cry, you that are not in labor: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband:⁠a for the Lord has said, 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains: fix the pins, do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins; 3 spread forth your tent yet to the right and the left: for your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and you shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4 Do not fear, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached: for you shall forget your everlasting shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood. 5 For it is the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered you, he is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth. 6 The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth,⁠b says your God. 7 For a little while I left you: but with great mercy I will have compassion upon you. 8 In a little fierce anger I turned away my face from you; but with everlasting mercy I will have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you. 9 From the time of the water of Noah this is my purpose: as I swore to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened, 10 shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed: for the Lord who is gracious to you has spoken it. 11 Afflicted and outcast you have not been comforted: look, I will prepare carbuncle for your stones, and sapphire for your foundations; 12 and I will make your buttresses jasper, and your gates crystal, and your border precious stones. 13 And I will cause all your sons to be taught of God, and your children to be in great peace. 14 And you shall be built in righteousness: abstain from injustice, and you shall not fear; and trembling shall not come near you. 15 Look, strangers shall come to you by me, and shall run to you for refuge. 16 Look, I have created you, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created you, not for ruin, that I should destroy you. 17 I will not allow any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be condemned by it. There is an inheritance to those who serve the Lord, and you shall be righteous before me, says the Lord.