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Isaiah 54:1

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

KJV

Lauda, sterilis, quæ non paris ; decanta laudem, et hinni, quæ non pariebas : quoniam multi filii desertæ magis quam ejus quæ habet virum, dicit Dominus.

Vulgate

Εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα, ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα· εἶπεν γὰρ Κύριος.

LXX

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

ASV

רָנִּ֥י עֲקָרָ֖ה לֹ֣א יָלָ֑דָה פִּצְחִ֨י רִנָּ֤ה וְ/צַהֲלִי֙ לֹא חָ֔לָה כִּֽי רַבִּ֧ים בְּֽנֵי שׁוֹמֵמָ֛ה מִ/בְּנֵ֥י בְעוּלָ֖ה אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הּ
h
verb · 16×
הוֹלִ֣יד
hvlyd
verb · 478×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְרַנֵּֽנוּ
yrnnv
verb · 52×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ן
n
verb · 61×
נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙
nshmv
verb · 86×
עֲקָרָ֖ה
'qrh
adjective · 12×
פִּצְח֤וּ
ptschv
verb · 9×
צַהֲלִ֥י
tshly
verb · 10×
רִנָּֽה
rnh
noun · 33×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Gal 4:27 · adapted
    "For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband."
    Isaiah: rejoice O barren — Paul adapts for the allegory of Sarah/Hagar

Themes

Typology

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world. 1. The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: [She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, wh…
Chapter 29.—What Things are Predicted by Isaiah Concerning Christ and the Church. The prophecy of Isaiah is not in the book of the twelve prophets, who are called the minor from the brevity of their writings, as compared with those who are called the greater prophets because they published larger volumes. Isaiah belongs to the latter, yet I connect him with the two above named,…
Though we could bring forward many other prophecies, we forbear, judging these sufficient for the persuasion of those who have ears to hear and understand; and considering also that those persons are able to see that we do not make mere assertions without being able to produce proof, like those fables that are told of the so-called sons of Jupiter. For with what reason should w…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 2:5 — They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
  • 1Sam 2:5 — They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
  • Acts 3:19 — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
  • Eccl 3:2 — A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  • Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
  • Gal 4:27 — For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
  • Gal 4:27 — For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
  • Gen 21:6 — And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
  • Gen 24:67 — And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Heb 11:11 — Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
  • Isa 12:6 — Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
  • Isa 27:6 — He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
  • Isa 42:10 — Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
  • Isa 44:23 — Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glori
  • Isa 49:13 — Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
  • Isa 49:18 — Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bin
  • Isa 49:19 — For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
  • Isa 49:20 — The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
  • Isa 52:9 — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
  • Isa 55:12 — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
  • Isa 60:3 — And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
  • Isa 62:4 — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall
  • Isa 62:4 — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall
  • Luke 1:25 — Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
  • Ps 45:16 — Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
  • Ps 67:3 — Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
  • Ps 98:3 — He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Ps 113:9 — He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Ps 113:9 — He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Rev 7:9 — After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robe
  • Rev 12:2 — And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
  • Song 8:8 — We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
  • Zech 9:9 — Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an
  • Zeph 3:14 — Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
  • Zeph 3:14 — Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.