Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 54 connects to 10 cross-references. God addresses barren Zion as a childless woman who will burst forth in song at her many children. The covenant of peace is unbreakable — as God swore to Noah. God promises to set Israel's foundations with sapphires and gates …
Other Translations
For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.
For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.
For 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.
Cross References
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be …
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened …
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of …
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am …
But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom …
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry …
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;