Yesaya 54:1-3

Zion Will Be Secure

54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth!

Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor!

For the children of the desolate one are more numerous

than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

54:2 Make your tent larger,

stretch your tent curtains farther out! ¹ 

Spare no effort,

lengthen your ropes,

and pound your stakes deep. ² 

54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;

your children will conquer ³  nations

and will resettle desolate cities.

Zakharia 2:4

2:4 and said to him, “Hurry, speak to this young man ⁴  as follows: ‘Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls ⁵  because of the multitude of people and animals there.

[54:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the curtains of our dwelling places let them stretch out.”

[54:2]  ² tn Heb “your stakes strengthen.”

[54:3]  ³ tn Or “take possession of”; NAB “shall dispossess.”

[2:4]  ⁴ sn That is, to Zechariah.

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “Jerusalem will dwell as open regions (פְּרָזוֹת, pÿrazot)”; cf. NAB “in open country”; CEV “won’t have any boundaries.” The population will be so large as to spill beyond the ancient and normal enclosures. The people need not fear, however, for the Lord will be an invisible but strong wall (v. 5).