1Let 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.

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Galatians 4:27, Galatians 4:27, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:4, 1 Samuel 2:5

2Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

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Isaiah 33:20, Isaiah 33:20, Jeremiah 10:20, Exodus 39:40, Isaiah 49:19

3For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.

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Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 43:6, Genesis 28:14, Ezekiel 36:35, Ezekiel 36:36

4Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

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Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, 1 Peter 2:6, 1 Peter 2:6, Isaiah 61:7

5For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.

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Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:27, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:27, Hosea 2:19

6For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

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Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:4, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Hosea 2:14, Hosea 2:15

7For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

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Psalms 30:5, Psalms 30:5, Micah 4:6, 2 Peter 3:8, Isaiah 26:20

8In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.

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Jeremiah 31:3, Jeremiah 31:3, Ezekiel 39:23, Ezekiel 39:24, 1 Timothy 1:16

9For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

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Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:1, Genesis 8:21, Genesis 8:21, Genesis 9:11

10For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

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Psalms 89:33, Psalms 89:34, Psalms 89:33, Psalms 89:34, Psalms 46:2

11O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.

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1 Peter 2:4, 1 Peter 2:6, 1 Peter 2:4, 1 Peter 2:6, Jeremiah 30:17

12I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.

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13And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

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John 6:45, John 6:45, Philippians 4:7, Philippians 4:7, Psalms 119:165

14All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

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Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, Jeremiah 30:10

15See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.

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Isaiah 41:11, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:11, Isaiah 41:16, Psalms 37:12

16See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

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Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, Exodus 9:16, Exodus 9:16, Isaiah 46:11

17No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

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Romans 8:28, Romans 8:39, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:39, Isaiah 54:15