Resound, infertile one, you who haven’t given birth;
break out into sound and bellow, you who haven’t laboured.
Because the children of the desolate are many,
more than the married woman’s children (Yahweh has said).
Enlarge your tent space;
people must stretch your dwelling curtains, don’t hold back.
Lengthen your ropes, strengthen your pegs,
because you’ll spread out right and left.
Your offspring will dispossess the nations,
they’ll inhabit the desolate towns.

Don’t be afraid, because you will not be shamed;
don’t be disgraced, because you will not be confounded.
Because you will put out of mind the shame of your youth,
you will no more be mindful of the reviling of your widowhoo d.
Because your maker will be the one who marries you;
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Yisra’el’s sacred one is your restorer;
he calls himself ‘God of all the earth’.
Because it’s as a wife abandoned
and distressed in spirit that Yahweh is calling you,
The wife of his youth when she’s been spurned,
your God has said.
For a short moment I abandoned you,
but with great compassion I’ll gather you.
In a burst of anger
I hid my face from you for a moment,
But with permanent commitment
I’m having compassion for you (your restorer, Yahweh, has said),

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, John; Wright, Tom; Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Lord God,
your feed us with the living bread from heaven.
You renew our faith
increase our hope
and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ
who is the true and living bread
and live by every word that comes from your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.