John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear ,.... The Targum interprets this of Jerusalem, paraphrasing the words thus, "sing praise, O Jerusalem, which was as a barren woman that bears not;' and so the apostle applies the words of the text to the Jerusalem above, the mother of us all, the then present Gospel church, Galatians 4:26 , which, at the first setting of it up, in the times of Christ, during his life and at the time of his death, and before the day of Pentecost, was like a... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-5
If we apply this to the state of the Jews after their return out of captivity, it is a prophecy of the increase of their nation after they were settled in their own land. Jerusalem had been in the condition of a wife written childless, or a desolate solitary widow; but now it is promised that the city should be replenished and the country peopled again, that not only the ruins of Jerusalem should be repaired, but the suburbs of it extended on all sides and a great many buildings erected upon... read more