Isaiah (TCB) Chapter 54
Isaiah (TCB) 54:
1 "SING YOU BARREN WOMAN WHO HAS NOT BORNE; BURST OUT INTO SONG AND JUBILATE, YOU WHO HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED BIRTH PANGS, FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE ONE ARE MORE THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE MARRIED WOMAN," SAYS THE LORD.
1 "SING YOU BARREN WOMAN WHO HAS NOT BORNE; BURST OUT INTO SONG AND JUBILATE, YOU WHO HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED BIRTH PANGS, FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE ONE ARE MORE THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE MARRIED WOMAN," SAYS THE LORD.
This is still mainly on Judah who will return prior to the Ten Tribes and prepare the way for them. Judah will rebuild the waste places.
2 WIDEN THE PLACE OF YOUR TENT, AND LET THEM STRETCH FORTH THE CURTAINS OF YOUR HABITATIONS, DO NOT SPARE; LENGTHEN YOUR CORDS AND STRENGTHEN YOUR STAKES.
3 FOR RIGHT AND LEFT SHALL YOU PREVAIL, AND YOUR SEED SHALL INHERIT NATIONS AND REPEOPLE DESOLATE CITIES.
4 FEAR NOT, FOR YOU SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED, AND BE NOT EMBARRASSED FOR YOU SHALL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME, FOR THE SHAME OF YOUR YOUTH YOU SHALL FORGET, AND THE DISGRACE OF YOUR WIDOWHOOD YOU SHALL NO LONGER REMEMBER.
5 FOR YOUR MASTER IS YOUR MAKER, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME, AND YOUR REDEEMER, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, SHALL BE CALLED THE GOD OF ALL THE EARTH.
6 FOR, LIKE A WIFE WHO IS DESERTED AND DISTRESSED IN SPIRIT HAS THE LORD CALLED YOU, AND A WIFE OF ONE'S YOUTH WHO WAS REJECTED, SAID YOUR GOD.
7 "FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I FORSAKEN YOU, AND WITH GREAT MERCY WILL I GATHER YOU.
8 WITH A LITTLE WRATH DID I HIDE MY COUNTENANCE FOR A MOMENT FROM YOU, AND WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS WILL I HAVE COMPASSION ON YOU," SAID YOUR REDEEMER, THE LORD.
9 "FOR THIS IS TO ME [AS] THE WATERS OF NOAH, AS I SWORE THAT THE WATERS OF NOAH SHALL NEVER AGAIN PASS OVER THE EARTH, SO HAVE I SWORN NEITHER TO BE WROTH WITH YOU NOR TO REBUKE YOU.
10 FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART AND THE HILLS TOTTER, BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL NOT DEPART FROM YOU, NEITHER SHALL THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE TOTTER," SAYS THE LORD, WHO HAS COMPASSION ON YOU.
11 O POOR TEMPESTUOUS ONE, WHO WAS NOT CONSOLED, BEHOLD I WILL SET YOUR STONES WITH CARBUNCLE, AND I WILL LAY YOUR FOUNDATIONS WITH SAPPHIRES.
12 AND I WILL MAKE YOUR WINDOWS OF JASPER AND YOUR GATES OF CARBUNCLE STONES, AND ALL YOUR BORDER OF PRECIOUS STONES.
13 AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN SHALL BE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD, AND YOUR CHILDREN'S PEACE SHALL INCREASE.
14 WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL YOU BE ESTABLISHED, GO FAR AWAY FROM OPPRESSION, FOR YOU SHALL NOT FEAR, AND FROM RUIN, FOR IT WILL NOT COME NEAR YOU.
15 BEHOLD, THE ONE WITH WHOM I AM NOT, SHALL FEAR, WHOEVER MOBILIZES AGAINST YOU SHALL DEFECT TO YOU.
16 BEHOLD I HAVE CREATED A SMITH, WHO BLOWS ON A CHARCOAL FIRE AND PRODUCES A WEAPON FOR HIS WORK, AND I HAVE CREATED A DESTROYER TO DESTROY [IT].
17 ANY WEAPON WHETTED AGAINST YOU SHALL NOT SUCCEED, AND ANY TONGUE THAT CONTENDS WITH YOU IN JUDGMENT, YOU SHALL CONDEMN; THIS IS THE HERITAGE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD AND THEIR DUE REWARD FROM ME, SAYS THE LORD.
2 WIDEN THE PLACE OF YOUR TENT, AND LET THEM STRETCH FORTH THE CURTAINS OF YOUR HABITATIONS, DO NOT SPARE; LENGTHEN YOUR CORDS AND STRENGTHEN YOUR STAKES.
3 FOR RIGHT AND LEFT SHALL YOU PREVAIL, AND YOUR SEED SHALL INHERIT NATIONS AND REPEOPLE DESOLATE CITIES.
4 FEAR NOT, FOR YOU SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED, AND BE NOT EMBARRASSED FOR YOU SHALL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME, FOR THE SHAME OF YOUR YOUTH YOU SHALL FORGET, AND THE DISGRACE OF YOUR WIDOWHOOD YOU SHALL NO LONGER REMEMBER.
5 FOR YOUR MASTER IS YOUR MAKER, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME, AND YOUR REDEEMER, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, SHALL BE CALLED THE GOD OF ALL THE EARTH.
6 FOR, LIKE A WIFE WHO IS DESERTED AND DISTRESSED IN SPIRIT HAS THE LORD CALLED YOU, AND A WIFE OF ONE'S YOUTH WHO WAS REJECTED, SAID YOUR GOD.
7 "FOR A SMALL MOMENT HAVE I FORSAKEN YOU, AND WITH GREAT MERCY WILL I GATHER YOU.
8 WITH A LITTLE WRATH DID I HIDE MY COUNTENANCE FOR A MOMENT FROM YOU, AND WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS WILL I HAVE COMPASSION ON YOU," SAID YOUR REDEEMER, THE LORD.
9 "FOR THIS IS TO ME [AS] THE WATERS OF NOAH, AS I SWORE THAT THE WATERS OF NOAH SHALL NEVER AGAIN PASS OVER THE EARTH, SO HAVE I SWORN NEITHER TO BE WROTH WITH YOU NOR TO REBUKE YOU.
10 FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART AND THE HILLS TOTTER, BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL NOT DEPART FROM YOU, NEITHER SHALL THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE TOTTER," SAYS THE LORD, WHO HAS COMPASSION ON YOU.
11 O POOR TEMPESTUOUS ONE, WHO WAS NOT CONSOLED, BEHOLD I WILL SET YOUR STONES WITH CARBUNCLE, AND I WILL LAY YOUR FOUNDATIONS WITH SAPPHIRES.
12 AND I WILL MAKE YOUR WINDOWS OF JASPER AND YOUR GATES OF CARBUNCLE STONES, AND ALL YOUR BORDER OF PRECIOUS STONES.
13 AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN SHALL BE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD, AND YOUR CHILDREN'S PEACE SHALL INCREASE.
14 WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL YOU BE ESTABLISHED, GO FAR AWAY FROM OPPRESSION, FOR YOU SHALL NOT FEAR, AND FROM RUIN, FOR IT WILL NOT COME NEAR YOU.
15 BEHOLD, THE ONE WITH WHOM I AM NOT, SHALL FEAR, WHOEVER MOBILIZES AGAINST YOU SHALL DEFECT TO YOU.
16 BEHOLD I HAVE CREATED A SMITH, WHO BLOWS ON A CHARCOAL FIRE AND PRODUCES A WEAPON FOR HIS WORK, AND I HAVE CREATED A DESTROYER TO DESTROY [IT].
17 ANY WEAPON WHETTED AGAINST YOU SHALL NOT SUCCEED, AND ANY TONGUE THAT CONTENDS WITH YOU IN JUDGMENT, YOU SHALL CONDEMN; THIS IS THE HERITAGE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD AND THEIR DUE REWARD FROM ME, SAYS THE LORD.
This suggests the art of enamelling that can be traced from Israel and Phoenecia to the Celts of Britain and Anglo-Saxons with the same methods and the same styles. This appears to have been unqiue to these peoples, see “Lost Israelite Identity” by Yair Davidy when (and if) it is reprinted along with “The Tribes”. This is a small thing but it is indicative of ancient connections. Also the Anglo-Saxon means of measurement ("foot' etc) originated in Egypt and Israel.