2. Make the tent you live in larger;lengthen its ropes and strengthen the pegs!
3. You will extend your boundaries on all sides;your people will get back the landthat the other nations now occupy.Cities now deserted will be filled with people.
4. Do not be afraid — you will not be disgraced again;you will not be humiliated.You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife,and your desperate loneliness as a widow.
5. Your Creator will be like a husband to you —the Lord Almighty is his name.The holy God of Israel will save you —he is the ruler of all the world.
6. Israel, you are like a young wife,deserted by her husband and deeply distressed.But the Lord calls you back to him and says:
7. “For one brief moment I left you;with deep love I will take you back.
8. I turned away angry for only a moment,but I will show you my love for ever.”So says the Lord who saves you.
9. “In the time of Noah I promisednever again to flood the earth.Now I promise not to be angry with you again;I will not reprimand or punish you.