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For your husband is your Maker;
    the Lord of hosts is his name,
Your redeemer,[a] the Holy One of Israel,
    called God of all the earth.

The Lord calls you back,
    like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
A wife married in youth and then cast off,
    says your God.(A)
For a brief moment I abandoned you,
    but with great tenderness I will take you back.
In an outburst of wrath, for a moment
    I hid my face from you;
But with enduring love I take pity on you,
    says the Lord, your redeemer.

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Footnotes

  1. 54:5 Redeemer: cf. note on 41:14.

For your Maker(A) is your husband(B)
    the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One(C) of Israel is your Redeemer;(D)
    he is called the God of all the earth.(E)
The Lord will call you back(F)
    as if you were a wife deserted(G) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,(H)
    only to be rejected,” says your God.
“For a brief moment(I) I abandoned(J) you,
    but with deep compassion(K) I will bring you back.(L)
In a surge of anger(M)
    I hid(N) my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness(O)
    I will have compassion(P) on you,”
    says the Lord your Redeemer.(Q)

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