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Isaiah 54:1-3

The ideal Zion is called upon to rejoice in the multitude of her children. As in ch. Isaiah 49:21, the children are conceived as already born, and waiting to be acknowledged by their mother.

more are the children of the desolate(2 Samuel 13:20) &c.] The contrast is not between Zion and other cities, but between Zion's present and her past: even now in her widowhood and barrenness she has more children than she had before her separation from her Husband.

the married wife Cf. ch. Isaiah 62:4; Genesis 20:3; Deuteronomy 22:22. The image of the verse is applied by St Paul to the contrast between the spiritual and the earthly Jerusalem; i.e. the church of Christ and the Jewish community (Galatians 4:27).

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