Isaiah 54:3

Translations

Modern

For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.

Traditional

For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Literal

For to the right and to the left you will break through, and your seed will inherit the nations, and will settle the cities left desolate.

Latin

Ad dexteram enim et ad lævam penetrabis, et semen tuum gentes hæreditabit, et civitates desertas inhabitabit.

Original

Hebrew

English

For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.

Notes

Isaiah 54:3

The descendants of Israel (compare Isaiah 53:10) would take over other nations, fulfilling God's promise to Abraham (Genesis 22:17) and Jacob (Genesis 28:14).
As desolation occurred (Isaiah 6:11; 14:21), God's people would inherit the earth and rebuild the ruined cities (51:6; 52:10; 65:17; see also Matthew 5:5; Romans 4:13).

Isaiah 54:1–3

The prophet encourages Jerusalem, likened to a barren woman, to rejoice because its fate was changing very quickly. She would have so many children that she would outgrow her home (see Galatians 4:27).

Isaiah 54:1–17

Salvation flows from the vindication of the suffering servant. The promises mentioned here go beyond the return from Babylonian exile and apply to the coming of Jesus Christ, the extension of the kingdom to the church, the benefits of the second coming of Jesus Christ as the bridegroom of the church, and the new Jerusalem.

Isaiah 54:1–55:13

This is an invitation to participate in the restoration to God’s favor made possible through the ministry of the promised servant.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Infertility Making Sense of the Exile Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 49:18–19
Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
Ezekiel 36:35–36
Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Psalm 72:8–11
May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 60:3–13
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
Isaiah 43:5–6
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 52:9
Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:2–4
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Isaiah 49:12
Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”
Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Isaiah 42:1–12
“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
Isaiah 55:5
Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”

Glossary

Isaiah, Book of New Creation, New Creature

Topics

Church: Prophecies Concerning Prosperity of Gentiles: Prophecies of the Conversion of Heathen: Their Land Given to Israel Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning Universality of the Kingdom of Righteous: Promises To, Expressed or Implied

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