Komentaryo sa Isaias 54:6: Rashi, Ibn Ezra & Tze'enah Ure'enah

who was rejected When she is rejected at times that her husband is a little wroth with her.

As a woman forsaken, etc. The reproach of Israel’s widowhood, the scorn heaped upon the Israelites by other nations, for not having a king of their own, having been mentioned before (ver. 4), the prophet continues in the name of God: Israel has been, it is true, like a woman that is forsaken, and has grieved at the absence of her husband, but her husband is yet alive, etc.; comp. thy Maker is thy husband, etc., (ver. 5)—עצובת grieved is an adjective, not a participle, which it resembles in form—the text continues therefore, the Lord hath called thee.¹⁴The Lord hath called thee to come unto Him, as the husband calls his wife, after having left her for a short time. ואשת נעורים כי תמאס And like a wife of youth, when she is refused,¹⁵A. V., When thou wast refused. thou hast been.

“For like a wife forsaken, etc.” [54:6]. The prophet said: you are not like a wife whose husband has died, but you are like a wife whose husband was angry with her for a time and returned to her. The Holy One called you a forsaken woman. If you want to think that you will be eternally forsaken because he find you undesirable. It is common that when someone has an old wife, she is not so beloved. Therefore, God says, “like the wife of a man’s youth who is cast off” [54:6]. That is to say, one who despises his wife, who he married as a maiden, that is to say, a virgin. She is the same when she has gotten old and he remembers that she is the same one who came to him as a young woman. However, when one takes an old wife, then he may eventually come to despise her.