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We will provide our own food and clothing. Only let us take your name so we won’t be mocked as old maids.”</p><p class="hdg">A Promise of Restoration</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But in that day, the branch<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> of the LORD</p><p class="line2">will be beautiful and glorious;</p><p class="line1">the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory</p><p class="line2">of all who survive in Israel.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All who remain in Zion</p><p class="line2">will be a holy people—</p><p class="line1">those who survive the destruction of Jerusalem</p><p class="line2">and are recorded among the living.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line2">and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains</p><p class="line2">with the hot breath of fiery judgment.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the LORD will provide shade for Mount Zion</p><p class="line2">and all who assemble there.</p><p class="line1">He will provide a canopy of cloud during the day</p><p class="line2">and smoke and flaming fire at night,</p><p class="line2">covering the glorious land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>It will be a shelter from daytime heat</p><p class="line2">and a hiding place from storms and rain.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Branch.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">from the women of Zion;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">from the daughters of Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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