OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 54:1

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“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.

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Verse 1. Barren Jews in captivity, or Church of the Gentiles, to which alone the expressions can be applied. Calmet.—The Gentiles were before unfruitful, as the Jews will be till towards the latter times. Worthington.

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