Isaiah 54:3

King James Version

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.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou shalt increase on the right hande and on the left, and thy seede shall possesse the Gentiles, and dwell in the desolate cities.

Christian Standard Bible®
For you will spread out to the right and to the left,and your descendants will dispossess nationsand inhabit the desolate cities.

Hebrew Names Version
For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Darby Translation
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make desolate cities to be inhabited.

Easy-to-Read Version
because you will grow in all directions. Your children will take over many nations and live in the cities that were destroyed.

Amplified Bible
"For you will spread out to the right and to the left; And your descendants will take possession of nations And will inhabit deserted cities.

American Standard Version
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

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

Contemporary English Version
You and your descendants will take over the land of other nations. You will settle in towns that are now in ruins.

Complete Jewish Bible
For you will spread out to the right and the left, your descendants will possess the nations and inhabit the desolated cities.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

King James Version (1611)
For thou shalt breake forth on the right hand, and on the left; and thy seed shall inherite the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

English Revised Version
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Lexham English Bible
for you will spread out to the right and to the left. And your descendants will be heir to the nations, and they will inhabit desolate towns.

Literal Translation
For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left. And your seed shall possess nations, and people will inhabit ruined cities.

New Century Version
because you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your children will take over other nations, and they will again live in cities that once were destroyed.

New English Translation
For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.

New King James Version
For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

New Living Translation
For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities.

New Life Bible
For you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your children will own nations, and they will fill the destroyed cities with people.

New Revised Standard
For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will settle the desolate towns.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, on the right hand and on the left, shalt thou break forth, - And thy seed, shall of the nations, take possession, And forsaken cities, shall they cause to be inhabited.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left: and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate cities.

George Lamsa Translation
For you shall expand on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Good News Translation
You will extend your boundaries on all sides; your people will get back the land that the other nations now occupy. Cities now deserted will be filled with people.

New American Standard Bible
"For you will spread out to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thou shalt be multiplied on the ryght syde and on the left, and thy seede shall haue the gentiles in possession, and dwell in the desolate cities.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou schalt perse to the riytside and to the leftside; and thi seed schal enherite hethene men, and schal dwelle in forsakun citees.

Young's Literal Translation
For right and left thou breakest forth, And thy seed doth nations possess,

World English Bible
For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Revised Standard Version
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

Update Bible Version
For you shall spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Bible in Basic English
For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for thou shalt breake out on the right syde and on the left, & thy sede shal haue ye Getiles in possession, ad dwel in the desolate cities.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities.

Legacy Standard Bible
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.And your seed will possess nationsAnd will resettle the desolate cities.

Contextual Overview

¹ Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord . ² Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; ³ 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. ⁴ Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. ⁵ For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Isaiah 2:2-4, Isaiah 11:9-12, Isaiah 35:1, Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 42:1-12, Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 43:6, Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 60:3-11, Genesis 49:10, Psalms 72:8-11, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, Romans 10:18, Romans 11:12, Colossians 1:23

and thy: Isaiah 49:18, Isaiah 55:5, Isaiah 60:10-13, Isaiah 61:5-9

make: Isaiah 49:8, Isaiah 49:19, Isaiah 52:9, Ezekiel 36:35, Ezekiel 36:36

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:1 - too strait for us Isaiah 44:26 - that saith Isaiah 49:21 - am desolate Isaiah 66:12 - the glory Isaiah 66:20 - bring all Jeremiah 51:5 - Israel Daniel 7:27 - the kingdom and Zechariah 10:10 - place Zechariah 12:6 - on the right Luke 13:29 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou shall break forth on the right hand and on the left,.... To the south, and to the north, as the Targum, like an inundation of water, that breaks through and overflows the banks of the river, and spreads itself in the adjacent countries; or like a warehouse overstocked with goods, bursts the walls in which they are pent up; or rather as infants break forth from the womb at the time of birth, as Pharez did, from whence he had his name, Genesis 38:29 see Hosea 13:13, or as, when a country is become exceeding numerous, the inhabitants break out, and go forth beyond their borders, and seek new settlements, the place of their abode being too small for them; so it shall be in the latter day, through the vast number of converts that will be made; see Isaiah 49:19:

and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles; where formerly only Heathens lived, there the Gospel of Christ shall be carried by his apostles and other ministers; and being succeeded to the conversion of many souls, through the power of divine grace accompanying it, a spiritual seed, the seed of the church, shall take place, and dwell there; this was true in the first ages of Christianity, more especially in Constantine's time; and will be more fully accomplished in the latter day, when the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in:

and make the desolate cities to be inhabited: such cities as were destitute of the knowledge of Christ and his salvation, and of all divine and spiritual things, shall now be inhabited by spiritual men, such as believe in Christ, and profess his name; such cities as Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Colosse, Philippi, Thessalonica, and many others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou shalt break forth - (See the notes at Isaiah 49:19-20).

And make the desolate cities - (See the notes at Isaiah 44:26).