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📚And in that day seven women will seize one man 📖,
saying, “We will eat our own food,
and wear our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name,
to take away our disgrace 📖”.
The Branch
2 📚In that day the Branch 📖 of the LORD
will be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth will be
the pride and splendour
for those of Israel who have
escaped.
3 📚And it will be that those
left in Zion and those who
remain in Jerusalem,
will be called holy,
everyone who is written among
the living in Jerusalem,
4 📚When the Lord has washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and has purged the blood of Jerusalem
from its midst by the spirit of
judgment,
and by the spirit of burning.
5 📚Then the LORD will create
above every dwelling place of
Mount Zion,
and above her assemblies,
a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire 📖 by night.
Over all the glory will be a canopy.
6 📚And there will be a tent
for shade in the daytime
from the heat,
and for a place of refuge,
and for a shelter from storm
and from rain.
4:5-6 See Ex 13:21-22; 40:38. If these verses are to have a literal fulfillment (and who can say it is impossible?), perhaps it will be in connection with Isa 30:26. Some scholars think this is simply a poetic way of indicating God’s protection over His people. It may be so, but when God did something similar in a literal way in the past (Ex 13:21-22), it would not be wise to rule out the possibility of some kind of literal fulfillment of these verses in the future.⚜