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For your Maker is your husband;
    the Lord of the Heavenly Armies is his name,
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
    he is called the God of the whole earth.
For the Lord has called you back
    like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off,”
    says the Lord your God.[a]

“For a brief moment I abandoned you;
    but I’ll gather you with great compassion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read says your God

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)

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