54 ‘Sing with joy,
    you woman who could not give birth to any children.
You have never known the pain of a child's birth,
    but now shout loudly with joy.
Be happy, because the woman who is alone
    will have many children.
She will have more children than the woman who has a husband.’^[a]
That is what the Lord says.
² Make your tent bigger!
    You need more room to live in.
Yes, do it!
    Make the tent's ropes longer!
    Make the pegs that hold it stronger!
³ The borders of your land will be wider in all directions.
Your descendants will take land from other nations.
    They will live in the cities that had become empty.