Isaie

Chapter 4

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    Day of desolation! Here are seven women catching hold of one man, and promi-sing, We will earn our bread, find ourselves in clothing; only let us bear thy name, and be saved from the reproach of barrenness!

  2. 2

    When that day comes, bud and fruit there shall be, of the Lord’s fostering; burgeoning of glory made manifest, harvest of our soil, the trophy of Israel’s gleanings.

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    Set apart for him, all that dwell in Sion now, all that survive the city’s purging; none else will be left alive in Jerusalem,

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    when the Lord sweeps away the guilt of Sion’s women-folk, washes Jerusalem clean from the blood that stains her, with the searing breath of his judgement.

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    And over mount Sion, the shrine of his name, cloud shall hang by day, glowing haze by night, a veil for glory.

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    Canopy they shall have, to shade them from the day’s heat, a refuge to give them shelter from storm and rain.