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Make the tent you live in larger;
    lengthen its ropes and strengthen the pegs!
You will extend your boundaries on all sides;
    your people will get back the land
    that the other nations now occupy.
    Cities now deserted will be filled with people.

Do not be afraid—you will not be disgraced again;
    you will not be humiliated.
You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife,
    and your desperate loneliness as a widow.

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“Enlarge the place of your tent,(A)
    stretch your tent curtains wide,
    do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
    strengthen your stakes.(B)
For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
    your descendants(C) will dispossess nations(D)
    and settle in their desolate(E) cities.

“Do not be afraid;(F) you will not be put to shame.(G)
    Do not fear disgrace;(H) you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth(I)
    and remember no more the reproach(J) of your widowhood.(K)

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