May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
Isaiah 54:6 - Tree of Life Version “For Adonai has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of one’s youth that 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. |
May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.
No longer will you be termed “Forsaken”, no longer your land termed “Desolate”. Instead you will be called, “My Delight is in Her” and your land, “Married”. For Adonai delights in you, and your land will be married.
For I will restore health to you and will heal you of your wounds.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “For they called you an outcast: ‘Zion—no one cares about her.’”
Then I will remove the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, no longer to be mentioned by their name.
Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.
Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
But God, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us with the arrival of Titus;