1 “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth;break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child:for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the Lord.
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations;don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left;and your offspring will possess the nations,and settle in desolate cities.
4 “Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed.Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed.For you will forget the shame of your youth;and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.