Isaiah 54:1

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Sing, O barren woman who has not given birth! Break forth into song and shout with joy, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman, says the Lord.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Therfore be glad now, thou bare that bearest not. Reioyce, synge & be mery, thou yt art not with childe: For the desolate hath moo children, then the maried wife, saieth the LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Reioyce, O barren that diddest not beare: breake forth into ioy and reioyce, thou that diddest not trauaile with childe: for the desolate hath moe children then the married wife, sayeth the Lorde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Be glad nowe thou baren that bearest not, reioyce, syng, and be mery thou that art not with childe: for the desolate hath mo childre then the maryed wyfe saith the Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more `are' the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Zion Will Be Secure“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.

Referenced Verses

  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.'
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'
  • Isa 62:4 : 4 You will no longer be called 'Abandoned,' and your land will no longer be called 'Desolate;' instead, you will be called 'My Delight is in Her,' and your land 'Married.' For the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married.
  • Heb 11:11-12 : 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. 12 And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout aloud, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Ps 67:3-5 : 3 So that Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations. 4 Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You. 5 Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples with fairness and guide the nations of the earth. Selah.
  • Isa 49:20 : 20 The children you thought you had lost will say in your hearing, 'This place is too small for us. Make room for us to live here.'
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He gives the barren woman a home, making her a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!
  • Isa 42:10-11 : 10 Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands, and their inhabitants. 11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, along with the villages where Kedar lives. Let the inhabitants of the rock sing for joy; let them shout from the top of the mountains.
  • Isa 44:23 : 23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, O depths of the earth! Burst into song, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and displays his glory in Israel.
  • Isa 49:13 : 13 Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth, and break out into singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
  • Rev 7:9-9 : 9 After this, I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
  • Zeph 3:14 : 14 Sing aloud, Daughter Zion; shout, Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!
  • Isa 55:12-13 : 12 For you will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. 13 In place of the thornbush, the cypress will grow; and instead of the nettle, the myrtle will rise. This will be for the LORD's renown, an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.
  • Ps 98:3-9 : 3 He has remembered His lovingkindness and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; break forth with joyful singing and praises. 5 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of song. 6 With trumpets and the sound of the ram’s horn, shout joyfully before the LORD, the King. 7 Let the sea and everything in it roar, the world and all who dwell in it. 8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together with joy. 9 Before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gal 4:27
    87%

    27For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.'

  • Isa 54:2-6
    5 verses
    80%

    2Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings—do not hold back! Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

    3For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit nations and resettle desolate cities.

    4Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced. Instead, you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the reproach of your widowhood.

    5For your Maker is your husband—the Lord of Hosts is His name. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of all the earth.

    6For the Lord has called you, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like the wife of one’s youth who is rejected, says your God.

  • Ps 113:9
    78%

    9He gives the barren woman a home, making her a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!

  • Isa 62:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4You will no longer be called 'Abandoned,' and your land will no longer be called 'Desolate;' instead, you will be called 'My Delight is in Her,' and your land 'Married.' For the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married.

    5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

  • Isa 66:7-11
    5 verses
    73%

    7Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before the pain came, she delivered a son.

    8Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

    9'Shall I bring to the point of birth and not deliver?' says the Lord. 'Or shall I, who causes delivery, shut the womb?' says your God.

    10Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; join in her joy, all you who mourn over her.

    11For you will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing glory.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    73%

    5'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'

  • Isa 49:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20The children you thought you had lost will say in your hearing, 'This place is too small for us. Make room for us to live here.'

    21Then you will say in your heart, 'Who bore me these children? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and rejected. Who raised these? I was left all alone—where have these come from?'

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like a woman in labor?

    10Writhe in pain and groan, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

  • Luke 23:29
    71%

    29For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

  • Jer 31:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion, and they will be radiant because of the LORD's bounty—grain, new wine, olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer languish in sorrow.

    13The young women will rejoice and dance, and the young men and the old together. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness in place of sorrow.

  • Isa 49:13
    71%

    13Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth, and break out into singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

  • Jer 31:4
    70%

    4I will build you up again, and you will be rebuilt, O virgin Israel. Again, you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne, and no one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has raised.

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • Deut 7:14
    70%

    14You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you, whether in men, women, or your livestock.

  • Jer 30:19
    69%

    19Out of them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will increase their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be despised.

  • Deut 28:41
    69%

    41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.

  • Isa 52:9
    69%

    9Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

  • Jer 31:7
    69%

    7For this is what the LORD says: Sing with joy for Jacob, shout for the chief of the nations. Proclaim, give praise, and say: Save, O LORD, your people, the remnant of Israel.

  • Joel 1:8
    69%

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Judg 13:3
    69%

    3The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not had children, but you will conceive and give birth to a son."

  • Zeph 3:14
    69%

    14Sing aloud, Daughter Zion; shout, Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

  • Jer 15:9
    68%

    9The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 60:4
    68%

    4Lift up your eyes and look around: they all gather together; they come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried on the hip.

  • Isa 51:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was one person, and I blessed him and made him many.

    3For the Lord comforts Zion; He comforts all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

  • Jer 33:11
    68%

    11The sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bridegroom and the bride, the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, 'Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever,' will again be heard. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first, says the Lord.

  • Isa 55:12
    68%

    12For you will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

  • Isa 65:14
    68%

    14Behold, my servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from the pain of your hearts and wail from a broken spirit.

  • Isa 35:2
    68%

    2It will burst into bloom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God.

  • Jer 4:31
    68%

    31I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'

  • Isa 60:15
    68%

    15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy of all generations.

  • Exod 23:26
    68%

    26None will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Job 24:21
    68%

    21He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

  • Hos 13:13
    68%

    13The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Isa 26:17
    67%

    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.