Future Blessings for Zion
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, Gal 4:27Isa 62:41Sa 2:5Heb 11:11-12Psa 113:9Zec 9:9Isa 49:13Zep 3:14
who bears no children;
break forth in song and cry aloud,
you who have never travailed;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,” 1
says the LORD.
“Enlarge the site of your tent, Isa 33:20Isa 49:19-20Jer 10:20Exo 39:40Exo 35:18
stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,
do not hold back.
Lengthen your ropes
and drive your stakes in deep. 2
For you will spread out to the right and left; Ezk 36:35-36Gen 28:14Isa 43:5-6Isa 49:18-19Isa 60:3-13Psa 72:8-11Isa 52:9Gen 49:10
your descendants will dispossess the nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.
Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; Isa 41:101Pe 2:6Isa 61:7Jer 31:19Isa 45:16-17Isa 51:7Isa 41:14Ezk 16:60-63
do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated.
For you will forget the shame of your youth
and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
For your husband is your Maker— Eph 5:25-27Hos 2:19-202Co 11:2-3Isa 48:17Ezk 16:8Rom 3:29-30Jhn 3:29Psa 45:10-17
the LORD of Hosts is His name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
He is called the God of all the earth.
For the LORD has called you back, Isa 62:4Ecc 9:9Hos 2:1-2Hos 2:14-15Pro 5:18Isa 49:14-212Co 7:9-10Isa 50:1-2
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
like the rejected wife of one’s youth,”
says your God.
“For a brief moment I forsook you, Psa 30:52Pe 3:8Isa 26:20Mic 4:6Deu 30:3Isa 60:4Isa 66:182Co 4:17
but with great compassion I will bring you back.
In a surge of anger Jer 31:31Ti 1:16Isa 60:10Ezk 39:23-24Isa 54:10Isa 57:16-17Zec 1:15Isa 55:3
I hid My face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,”
says the LORD your Redeemer.
“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, 3 Isa 12:1Gen 8:21Gen 9:11-16Heb 6:16-18Ezk 39:20Isa 55:11Jer 31:35-36Jer 33:20-26
when I swore that the waters of Noah
would never again cover the earth.
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
or rebuke you.
Though the mountains may be removed Psa 89:33-34Psa 46:2Eph 2:4-5Mat 24:35Rom 11:29Isa 51:6-7Isa 55:3Isa 54:8
and the hills may be shaken,
My loving devotion will not depart from you,
and My covenant of peace will not be broken,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, 1Pe 2:4-6Act 14:22Jer 30:17Isa 54:61Ch 29:2Psa 34:19Exo 2:23Rev 21:18-21
without solace,
surely I will set your stones in antimony
and lay your foundations with sapphires. 4
I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, 5 Jhn 6:45Php 4:7Psa 119:165Jer 31:34Heb 8:10Jhn 14:26-27Gal 5:22Isa 26:3
and great will be their prosperity.
In righteousness you will be established, Pro 3:25-26Jer 30:10Zec 9:8Ezk 36:27-28Zec 2:4-5Zec 8:3Isa 9:4Isa 1:26
far from oppression,
for you will have no fear.
Terror will be far removed,
for it will not come near you.
If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; Isa 41:11-16Psa 37:12-13Zec 12:9Zec 2:8Isa 43:3-4Rev 20:8-9Isa 43:14Zec 14:2-3
whoever assails you will fall before you.
Behold, I have created the craftsman Exo 9:16Pro 16:4Isa 46:11Isa 10:15Isa 10:5-6Dan 4:34-35Isa 37:26Jhn 19:11
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its task;
and I have created the destroyer
to wreak havoc.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, Rom 8:28-39Isa 54:15Jhn 10:28-30Isa 50:8Rom 8:1Psa 32:6Psa 2:1-6Mat 16:18
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and their vindication is from Me,”
declares the LORD.