Isaiah 54:1 meaning and explanation

“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.

Isaiah 54:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah 54 follows the suffering servant song of chapter 53, and the LORD now speaks to Jerusalem as a barren woman. In that culture a childless wife carried shame and seemed cut off from the future.

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