UST ISA Chapter 4

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4 When that happens, because few men will be alive, seven women will grab one man and say to him, “Allow us all to marry you! We will provide our own food and our own clothing. All we want is not to have disgrace for not having husbands.”

2 A time will come when Yahweh causes beautiful and glorious crops to grow to feed the Israelites who have survived. They will be proud of the good things that their land produces, and people will admire them for those things. 3 Yahweh will have written in his book the names of the people who would survive and keep living in Jerusalem. So people will recognize that all those who remain in that city on Mount Zion are holy. 4 They will be holy because the Lord will have judged the people and purified them, as if he had burned away their impurities. He will make the women who live in Jerusalem good again, as if he had washed dirt off them. He will make Jerusalem a peaceful place again instead of a violent one, as if he were washing away the blood stains of the people whom others murdered there. 5 Yahweh will create a cloud of smoke during the day to cover every place on Mount Zion and all the people who gather there. At night, he will cover them with a blazing fire. He will put a covering over that entire glorious place to protect it. 6 This covering will protect the people from the heat of the sun during the day, and it will shelter them when there are rain storms.