Isaiah 54:1–3

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,”^a

says the LORD.

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.^b

³For you will spread out to the right and left;

your descendants will dispossess the nations

and inhabit the desolate cities.