Yesaya 54:1

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Bersoraklah dengan sukahati, hai engkau yang mandul, yang belum tahu beranak! bertempik soraklah, hai engkau yang belum tahu menyakiti akan beranak! karena orang yang sunyi itu terlebih banyak anaknya dari pada orang yang bersuami, demikianlah firman Tuhan.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bersorak-sorailah, hai si mandul yang tidak pernah melahirkan! Bergembiralah dengan sorak-sorai dan memekiklah, hai engkau yang tidak pernah menderita sakit bersalin! Sebab yang ditinggalkan suaminya akan mempunyai lebih banyak anak dari pada yang bersuami, firman TUHAN.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Bersorak-sorailah, hai si mandul yang tidak pernah melahirkan! Bergembiralah dengan sorak-sorai dan memekiklah, hai engkau yang tidak pernah menderita sakit bersalin! Sebab yang ditinggalkan suaminya akan mempunyai lebih banyak anak dari pada yang bersuami, firman TUHAN.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O barren: Isaiah 62:4, Song of Solomon 8:8, Galatians 4:27

break: Isaiah 42:10, Isaiah 42:11, Isaiah 44:23, Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 55:12, Isaiah 55:13, Psalms 67:3-5, Psalms 98:3-9, Zephaniah 3:14, Zechariah 9:9, Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:10

for more: 1 Samuel 2:5, Psalms 113:9, Hebrews 11:11, Hebrews 11:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:6 - God Genesis 24:67 - his mother 1 Samuel 1:8 - am not 2 Chronicles 6:33 - that all people Psalms 22:31 - They Psalms 45:16 - children Psalms 67:4 - O let Ecclesiastes 3:2 - time to be born Song of Solomon 3:4 - I had Isaiah 9:3 - they joy Isaiah 12:6 - Cry out Isaiah 24:14 - General Isaiah 27:6 - General Isaiah 32:15 - wilderness Isaiah 49:18 - all these Isaiah 49:19 - thy waste Isaiah 49:20 - The place Isaiah 52:9 - Break Isaiah 60:3 - the Gentiles Isaiah 66:7 - General Ezekiel 16:61 - I will Hosea 1:10 - it was said Zechariah 2:10 - and rejoice Malachi 1:11 - my name Mark 4:31 - is less than Luke 1:25 - to take Luke 13:19 - and it Acts 3:19 - when 1 Timothy 5:5 - and desolate Revelation 12:2 - travailing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear,.... The Targum interprets this of Jerusalem, paraphrasing the words thus,

"sing praise, O Jerusalem, which was as a barren woman that bears not;''

and so the apostle applies the words of the text to the Jerusalem above, the mother of us all, the then present Gospel church, Galatians 4:26, which, at the first setting of it up, in the times of Christ, during his life and at the time of his death, and before the day of Pentecost, was like a barren woman; the number of converts were very small; few believed the report of the Gospel, professed Christ, and submitted to his ordinances; the names of the disciples were but a hundred and twenty. Though some understand this of the Jewish church, under the Old Testament dispensation, whose members were not many, and whose proselytes from the Gentiles were but few; and others of the Gentile world, before the coming of Christ, and the preaching of the Gospel in it; but the former sense is to be preferred, having the suffrage of the apostle:

break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child; among whom there were few instances of conversion, scarce any begotten and born again of incorruptible seed by the word of God, and no signs thereof; but now it being otherwise, and multitudes being converted both in Judea and in the Gentile world, the church and its members are called upon to express their joy aloud in songs of praise, setting forth the glory of efficacious grace, in the regeneration of men; for as this is matter of joy to the angels of heaven, so to the saints on earth:

for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord; more souls were born again, and added to the church after the death of Christ, when she was in a desolate condition, like a woman deprived of her husband, and in a widowhood state, then there were while Christ was here on earth, personally present with his people, and preaching the Gospel himself unto men; three thousand were converted under one sermon, and great numbers afterwards were added, so that the church at Jerusalem was in a much more flourishing condition after the death of Christ than before; more fruitful when it was become like a widow than when the bridegroom was with her; and the church of Christ still increased yet more and more afterwards, as the following verses predict. The Targum is,

"more shall be the children of Jerusalem than the children of the habitable city.''

The edition of it, in the king of Spain's Bible, has it,

"than the children of Rome;''

and so it is quoted by R. Elias h, and by Buxtorf i. The Jews understand this prophecy of their deliverance from their present condition by the Messiah; and of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, and the prosperity of it.

h In Tishbi, p. 227. i Lexic. Talmud. col. 996, 2229.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sing, O barren - That is, shout for joy, lift up the voice of exultation and praise. The ‘barren’ here denotes the church of God under the Old Testament, confined within the narrow limits of the Jewish nation, and still more so in respect to the very small number of true believers, and which seemed sometimes to be deserted of God, her husband (Lowth). It is here represented under the image of a female who had been destitute of children, and who now has occasion to rejoice on the reconciliation of her husband (Isaiah 54:6; Lowth), and on the accession of the Gentiles to her family. The Chaldee renders it, ‘Rejoice, O Jerusalem, who hast been as a sterile woman that did not bear.’ The church is often in the Bible compared to a female, and the connection between God and his people is often compared with that between husband and wife (compare Isaiah 62:5; Ezekiel 16:0; Revelation 21:2-9; Revelation 22:17).

Thou that didst not bear - Either referring to the fact that the church was confined within the narrow limits of Judea; or that there had been in it a small number of true believers; or addressed to it in Babylon when it was oppressed, and perhaps constantly diminishing in number. I think it probable that it refers to the latter; and that the idea is, that she saw her sons destroyed in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, and that she was not augmented by any accessions while in Babylon, but would have great occasion for rejoicing on her return, and in her future increase under the Messiah by the accession of the Gentiles.

Break forth into singing - (Compare Isaiah 14:7; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13).

For more are the children of the desolate - The ‘desolate’ here refers to Jerusalem, or the church. By the ‘married woman,’ Rosenmuller supposes the prophet means other nations which flourished and increased like a married woman. Grotius supposes that he means other cities which were inhabited, and that Jerusalem would surpass them all in her prosperity and in numbers. But the phrase seems to have somewhat of a proverbial cast, and probably the idea is that there would be a great increase, a much greater increase than she had any reason to apprehend. As if a promise was made to a barren female that she should have more children than those who were married usually had, so Jerusalem and the church would be greatly enlarged, far beyond what usually occurred among nations. The fulfillment of this is to be looked for in the accession of the Gentiles Isaiah 54:3. ‘The conversion of the Gentiles is all along considered by the prophet as a new accession of adopted children, admitted into the original church of God, and united with it’ (Lowth). See the same idea presented at greater length in Isaiah 49:20-22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER LIV

Some suppose this chapter to have been addressed to the

Gentiles; some, to the Jewish Church; and some, to the

Christian, in its first stage. On comparing the different parts

of it, particularly the seventh and eighth verses, with the

remainder, the most obvious import of the prophecy will be that

which refers it to the future conversion of the Jews, and to

the increase and prosperity of that nation, when reconciled to

God after their long rejection, when their glory and security

will far surpass what they were formerly in their most favoured

state, 1-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. LIV

Verse Isaiah 54:1. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear - "Shout for joy, O thou barren, that didst not bear"] The Church of God under the Old Testament, confined within the narrow bounds of the Jewish nation, and still more so in respect of the very small number of true believers, and which sometimes seemed to be deserted of God her husband, is the barren woman, that did not bear, and was desolate. She is exhorted to rejoice, and to express her joy in the strongest manner, on the reconciliation of her husband, (see Isaiah 54:6,) and on the accession of the Gentiles to her family. The converted Gentiles are all along considered by the prophet as a new accession of adopted children, admitted into the original Church of God, and united with it. See Isaiah 49:20; Isaiah 49:21.