Isaiah 54:2-3

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[2] Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. [3] For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

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Jerusalem represents restored Zion, pictured as a once-barren woman whose tent must be enlarged for coming growth. The imagery anticipates God’s covenant people expanding beyond their former desolation as he restores them after judgment.

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Isaiah 54:2-3 mentions Jerusalem.

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