2 O barren woman, thou that didst not give birth, thou that didst not travail with child, come ye, and sing;

3 And he that hath no money; buy food that ye may eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

4 For the children of the deserted wife shall be more numerous than the children of the espoused, saith the Lord.

5 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?

6 Enlarge the place of thy tent, stretch forth the canopies of your dwellings.

7 Do not hold back, but hearken diligently unto me.

8 Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance;

9 Incline your ear that ye may hear; and come unto me that your soul may live; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left.

10 And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, for thy seed shall dispossess the nations, inheriting the Gentiles.

11 And thy offspring shall resettle the desolate cities, according to the sure mercies, even my loving fidelity toward David.

12 Therefore, fear not, even as David; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for behold, I have given him for a witness; and thou shalt not be disgraced:

13 For thou shalt forget and shalt not remember any more before the people of the nations the shame of thy youth nor the reproach of thy widowhood.

14 For he who esposed you is thy Maker; and David shall be for a prince and lawgiver of the peoples.

15 Behold, thou shalt summon a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because the name of the Lord is the Lord of hosts;

16 The Lord is thy God, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, The God of the whole earth shall he be called, who gloriously endows thee.

17 Seek ye to call upon the Lord while he is near and may be found; for the Lord hath called thee as a spouse forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife married in youth, only to be rejected, saith thy God.

18 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but let the wicked and the sinful man forsake his ways and his thoughts, and let him return unto me; and with loving compassion will I gather thee.

19 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy God, even he who redeems you.

20 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me, for I will abundandtly pardon:

21 For my thoughts are not your thoughts; and as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, though your ways have not been my ways, so have I sworn to have no more anger toward thee, never again to rebuke thee, saith the Lord.

22 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, yet these mountains shall depart; and as my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, yet these hills shall be removed.

23 For I shall come down from heaven, which is my throne, to reign on the earth, which is my footstool.²

24 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, so shall my kindness not depart from thee;

25 And as the rains and the snows watereth the earth, and render it fertile and fruitful, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so also shall be the covenant of my peace: it shall be disturbed no more.

26 So shall my word be, saith the Lord: It shall go forth out of my mouth and have compassion on thee; it shall not return unto me void, O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted.

27 Behold, it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

28 For I will lay thy stones with the fair colours of antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;

29 And I will make thy windows and skylights of jacinth, and thy gates of carbuncles, and thy entire boundary of precious stones.

30 And ye shall go out and be led back with joy, and in peace; and all thy children, and their posterity, shall be taught by the Lord amidst great peace.

31 In righteousness shalt thou be firmly established in the tops of the mountains.

32 Thou shalt have no cause to fear; for terror, and ruin, and oppression shall be far away, that it shall not come near thee.

33 The mountains, and the hills, and all the trees of the meadows shall break forth before you into singing, and shall clap their hands at your presence for joy.

34 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

35 Therefore, instead of the thorn bush shall come up the fir tree; for behold, no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise to accuse thee in judgment thou shalt refute.

36 Though they shall surely gather together against thee¹, they are not of me; and whosoever masses against thee shall fall for thy sake; for instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.

37 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and it shall serve as a testimony of the Lord: for a name.

38 Such is their vindication; and their righteousness is of me.

39 And this shall serve for an everlasting sign from me that shall not be done away nor be cut off, saith the Lord.

NOTES

. . 1. All underlined text is from Avraham Gileadi's Translation of Isaiah (The Literary Message of Isaiah, Hebraeus Press, NY, NY, 1994).

. . 2. Isa. 66 = JST-II Thes. 2 Par. in Script, vs. 1.

. . 3. III Nephi 22:15.