Isaiah 54:1

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Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.

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Jerusalem represents Zion, the covenant community pictured as a barren woman who will yet have many children. In Isaiah 54:1, the city’s restoration after judgment points to God’s gracious expansion of his people beyond their former desolation.

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