Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
Isaiah 54:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,’ says your God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, and heartsore–even a wife [wooed and won] in youth, when she is [later] refused and scorned, says your God. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible As an abandoned and dejected woman the LORD has summoned you; as a young wife when she is rejected, says your God. Catholic Public Domain Version For the Lord has called you, like a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and like a wife rejected in her youth, said your God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the Lord hath called thee as woman forsaken and mourning in spirit. And as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God. |
Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
You will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will not 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.
But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds – this is the Lord’s declaration – for they call you Outcast, Zion whom no one cares about.
I will take you to be my wife for ever. I will take you to be my wife in righteousness, justice, love, and compassion.
And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
‘Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,