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Isaiah 4
1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.
2In that day shall the branch of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for those who are escaped of Israel.
3It shall happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;
4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
5Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory [shall be spread] a covering.
6There shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
"Isaiah 40 anticipates new creation. The renewed strength is resurrection power—the same power that will raise the dead already at work in those who wait. We soar because new creation has begun; we run because resurrection energizes us now." — N.T.
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