1. Raise a glad cry, you barren one who never bore a child,break forth in jubilant song, you who have never been in labor,For more numerous are the children of the deserted wifethan the children of her who has a husband,says the Lord.
2. Enlarge the space for your tent,spread out your tent cloths unsparingly;lengthen your ropes and make firm your pegs.
3. For you shall spread abroad to the right and left;your descendants shall dispossess the nationsand shall people the deserted cities.
4. Do not fear, you shall not be put to shame;do not be discouraged, you shall not be disgraced.For the shame of your youth you shall forget,the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.
5. For your husband is your Maker;the Lord of hosts is his name,Your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,called God of all the earth.
6. The Lord calls you back,like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,A wife married in youth and then cast off,says your God.
7. For a brief moment I abandoned you,but with great tenderness I will take you back.