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# you barren woman ... children of the married woman
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Yahweh telling the people of Jerusalem to rejoice because there will be many people living in Jerusalem again is spoken of as if Yahweh were telling a barren women she is going to have many children. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# break into joyful singing and cry aloud, you who have never been in birth labor
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This statement means the same thing as the first part of the sentence. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# For the children of the desolate one are more
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An event that will happen in the future is spoken of as if it happened in the past. This emphasizes that the event will certainly happen. Alternate translation: "For the children of the desolate woman will be more" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-pastforfuture]])
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# the desolate one
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Here "desolate" means that the woman's husband had rejected and abandoned her
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