Isaiah · 17 verses
Isaiah 54
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The LORD creates the man who forges weapons and the destroyer who uses them, then declares that no weapon formed against the afflicted city will prosper. It is a wonderfully close meeting of manufacture and futility.
The barren woman gets the larger tentvv. 1–10
A woman with no children is told to shout for joy, because her household will outnumber that of the woman with a husband. Her tent must expand, its ropes lengthened and stakes driven deep, while her descendants spread right and left. The language then turns from household to marriage: the LORD, Maker and Redeemer, calls back the wife who was deserted, promising compassion after anger and a covenant of peace that will survive even shaken mountains and removed hills.
A city dressed like a treasuryvv. 11–14
The afflicted city, lashed by storms and left without solace, receives a restoration plan of almost indecent specificity. Its stones are set in antimony, its foundations laid with sapphires, its pinnacles made of rubies, and its gates turned into sparkling jewels. Its sons are taught by the LORD, prosperity follows, and oppression and terror are moved well away.
The weapons are made, and still do not winvv. 15–17
Attackers may appear, but their assault is not from the LORD and they will fall before the city. Then comes the curious workshop in the margin of the promise: the LORD has created the craftsman at the coals, the weapon, and the destroyer who wreaks havoc. Yet the finished weapon has no final say; every accusing tongue is refuted, and the servants of the LORD inherit vindication from Him.
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Isa 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
Isa 54:2“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
Isa 54:3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
Isa 54:4Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
Isa 54:5For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
Isa 54:6For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Isa 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
Isa 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Isa 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
Isa 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Isa 54:11“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Isa 54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
Isa 54:13Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
Isa 54:14In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
Isa 54:15If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.
Isa 54:16Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
Isa 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
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- 17Romans 8:28–39And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- 17Isaiah 54:15If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.
- 17John 10:28–30I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
- 17Isaiah 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
- 17Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- 17Psalms 32:6Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
- 17Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- 17Revelation 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
- 10Psalms 89:33–34But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
- 17Daniel 6:20When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
- 10Psalms 46:2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
- 13John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
- 1Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
- 10Ephesians 2:4–5But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
- 10Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- 17Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
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