1. Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman,but now you can sing and shout for joy.Now you will have more childrenthan a woman whose husband never left her!
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.