New American Bible, Revised Edition

Isaiah 54:2-7 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.