Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 54:6

6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit , and a wife of youth , when thou wast refused , saith thy God .

To return and come again to him.

When thou wast like a Woman forsaken. Or, as an Husband recalleth his Wife.

For the loss of her Husbands Favour and Society, and for the reproach attending upon it.

Or, and, as (which note of similitude is supplied here by the Seventy, and Chaldee Interpreters, and is easily understood out of the foregoing clause, in which it is expressed) a wife of youth, i. e. as readily and affectionately as an Husband recalleth his Wife which he married in her and his own youth, of whom see on Prov. 5. 18. whom though he might through a sudden and violent passion put away, yet he soon repents of it, and his Affections work towards her, and he invites her to return to him.

When thou wast in a desolate Estate, and hadst been for some time rejected by me, then I recalled thee. Or, although thou wast refused, or dismissed, or despised by me, and that justly, yet I had mercy upon thee, and freely offered Reconciliation to thee.

Who will again be, and still shew himself to be, thy God, and will renew his Covenant with thee.

u By her Husband, who hath given her a Bill of Divorce.

Marginal references: Jer. 30. 17.