Galatians 4:25-27

EasyEnglish Bible

²⁵Hagar is like a picture of Sinai mountain in Arabia.^[a] Also, she is like the city of Jerusalem here on earth now, because that city and its people are slaves under the authority of God's Law.

²⁶But Abraham's wife, Sarah, is a picture of the new Jerusalem that is above. Sarah was a free person, not a slave, and she is like our mother. ²⁷It says in the Bible:

‘Be happy, you woman who could not have any children!
    You have never known the pain of a child's birth.
    But now shout loudly because you are so happy!
Yes, be happy, because the lonely woman now has more children
    than the woman who has a husband.’^[b]

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Footnotes

4:25 Arabia was south and east from Israel.
4:27 See Isaiah 54:1.

Galatians 4:25-27

New International Version

²⁵Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. ²⁶But the Jerusalem that is above^(A) is free, and she is our mother. ²⁷For it is written:

“Be glad, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
shout for joy and cry aloud,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband.”^[a]^(B)