Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God.
New American Standard Bible
Like a wife
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
a wife of one’s youth
says your God.
International Standard Version
For the LORD has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man's youth when she is cast off," says the LORD your God.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“For the Lord has called you,
Like a wife who has been abandoned, grieved in spirit,
And like a wife [married] in her youth when she is [later] rejected and scorned,”
Says your God.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
For Jehovah hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as a wife of youth, that hath been refused, saith thy God.
Julia Smith Translation
As a wife forsaken and grieved of spirit Jehovah called thee, and a wife of youth; for thou shalt be rejected, said thy God.
King James 2000
For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like [the] wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.
Modern King James verseion
For Jehovah has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were rejected, says your God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the LORD shall call thee, being as a desolate sorrowful woman, and as a young wife that hath broken her wedlock, sayeth thy God.
NET Bible
"Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected," says your God.
New Heart English Bible
For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
The Emphasized Bible
For, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, hath Yahweh caned thee, - Even the wife of youthful days, in that thou wast rejected saith thy God.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
Youngs Literal Translation
For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.
Themes
Divorce » Women » Afflicted by
Fear » Who shall not be afraid
Israel/jews » The lord not destroying israel
Oppression » Who shall be far from oppression
Prosperity » Who shall not prosper
Redemption » The lord being the redeemer
The counselors of peace » Who shall have peace
Woman » Illustrative » (forsaken,) of israel in her captivity
Topics
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`azab
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 54:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fertile Wife Of Yahweh
5 For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth. 6 For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God. 7 For a small moment I have forsaken thee, but with great mercies I will gather thee.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 62:4
Thou shall no more be termed Forsaken, nor shall thy land any more be termed Desolate. But thou shall be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah, for LORD delights in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.
Isaiah 49:14-21
But Zion said, LORD has forsaken me, and LORD has forgotten me.
Isaiah 50:1-2
Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your moth
Hosea 2:1-2
Say ye to your brothers, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
Hosea 2:14-15
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak soothingly to her.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless God, who encourages the lowly, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.
2 Corinthians 7:9-10
Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing.