Vers. 20. The children of thy barrennes shall say againe in thine eares; The place is strait for mee, giue places to me that I may dwell.
ISaiah goes on with the same argument,* 1.1 and vnder another figure, promiseth the Chur∣ches restauration. Now he compares her to a widow (or rather to a wife) that is barren: to set forth the miserable and desolate condi∣tion of this people, who were oppressed vn∣der so many euils, that the memory of that nation was in a maner extinct: for they were mingled among the Chaldeans, who held them prisoners; so as they were almost incor∣porated into one body with them. Wee are not to maruell then if he cōpares the church as a barren vvife, for shee conceiued no more children in her wombe. In former time the Iewes florished; but now their kingdome was torne in sunder, their power vtterly ouer∣throwne, and their name in a manner buried in obliuion, when they were led into capti∣uitie.
Hee promiseth then that the Church shall come forth of these sinkes, and that she who now sits solitarie, shall returne to her first e∣state. Which is signified by the word againe •••• for thereby he assures them, that God was a∣ble to render them that againe, which in for∣mer time he had bestowed vpō them, though