Text -- Galatians 4:27 (NET)

4:27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gal 4:27

¹ tn The direct object “children” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied for clarity. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

² tn Grk “because more are the children of the barren one than of the one having a husband.”

sn A quotation from Isa 54:1.