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Isaiah 54:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation

For right and left thou breakest forth, And thy seed doth nations possess,

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.

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Cross references

“thou shalt”

Psalm 72:8–11 Isaiah 2:2–4 Isaiah 42:1–12 Isaiah 49:12 Genesis 49:10 Isaiah 11:9–12

Psalm 72:8–11 · BSB

May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 2:2–4 · BSB

In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Isaiah 42:1–12 · BSB

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

Isaiah 49:12 · BSB

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan. ”

Genesis 49:10 · BSB

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Isaiah 11:9–12 · BSB

They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

“and thy”

Isaiah 55:5 Isaiah 61:5–9 Isaiah 49:18 Isaiah 60:10–13

Isaiah 55:5 · BSB

Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”

Isaiah 61:5–9 · BSB

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Isaiah 49:18 · BSB

Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

Isaiah 60:10–13 · BSB

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.

“make”

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

Isaiah 52:9 · BSB

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 49:8 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its des…

Isaiah 49:19 · BSB

For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Ezekiel 36:35 · BSB

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Ezekiel 36:36 · BSB

Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

Also

Genesis 28:14

Genesis 28:14 · BSB

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

4Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

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