1 At that time seven women will grab hold of one man and tell him, “We'll eat our own food and we can provide our own clothes. Just let us take your name by being married to you. Please take away our disgrace!” 2 But at that time, the “branch of the Lord” will be attractive and glorious; the fruit the land produces will be the pride and glory of the survivors who are left in Israel. 3 Everyone who remains in Zion will be called holy—all of those who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem— 4 once the Lord has washed away the excrement of the daughters of Zion, and cleaned the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire. 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole of Mount Zion and over the assembly of those who meet there a cloud of smoke during the day and a blazing flame of fire during night—over everything there will be this glorious canopy. 6 It will provide a place to stay in the shade of the daytime heat, and a shelter to hide from storm and rain.
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Cross references (6)
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- 1 Genesis 30:23; Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 13:12; Luke 21:22; Luke 1:25
- 2 Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 3:8; Isaiah 27:6; Joel 2:32
- 3 Luke 10:20; Isaiah 60:21; Psalm 69:28; Isaiah 52:1; Revelation 21:27
- 4 Malachi 3:2–3; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 3:11–12
- 5 Exodus 13:21–22; Nehemiah 9:12; Exodus 40:34–38; Numbers 9:15–22; Psalm 78:14
- 6 Isaiah 25:4; Psalm 27:5; Isaiah 32:2; Proverbs 18:10; Isaiah 8:14
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Now in the last days, when the fulness of the time of liberty had arrived, the Word Himself did by Himself "wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion," when He washed the disciples' feet with His own hands.
… Levi, and pour them out like gold and silver?" Similarly Isaiah says, "The Lord shall wash the filthiness of the sons and daughters of Zion, and shall cleanse away the blood from their midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning." Unless perhaps we should say that they are cleansed from filthiness and in a manner …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The Lord will wash away the filth of His sons and of His daughters by the Spirit of judgment, and by the Spirit of burning.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)