1The distress of the times. 2The succeeding blessings and security of Christ's kingdom.
1AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own *apparel: only 1let us be called by thy name, 2to take away our areproach.
*apparel-clothing, garments.
1Heb. let thy name be called upon us.
2Or, take thou away.
a 1Sa. 1.6. Lu. 1.25. Ps. 78.63. Ex. 23.26.
2In bthat day shall the cbranch of the LORD be 3beautiful and glorious, and dthe fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for 4them that eare escaped of Israel.
3Heb. beauty and glory.
4Heb. for the escaping of Israel.
b ch. 2.11,12; 10.20; 17.7; 19.18. c ch. 11.1; 9.6; 60.21; 45.25. Je. 23.5,6; 30.21; 33.15. Zec. 3.8; 6.12,13. Jn. 1.14; 3.31. Ps. 8.4. Mat. 26.64. d ch. 27.6; 30.23; 32.20; 45.8. Joel 3.18. Ps. 67.6; 85.11,12. Ho. 2.22. Zec. 9.17. e Re. 7.14. Mat. 24.21. Da. 12.1. ch. 6.13; 10.20; 27.12,13; 45.20; 66.19. Eze. 20.34-43. 1Co. 1.24. 1Pe. 1.7.
3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, fshall be called holy, even every one that is gwritten 5among the living in Jerusalem:
5Or, to life.
f ch. 1.27; 52.1; 60.21. Eze. 20.38; 43.12. Zep. 3.11. Zec. 14.20. Ac. 4.33. Phi. 2.16. He. 3.1; 12.14. 1Pe. 2.9. Ob. 17. g Phi. 4.3. Ac. 13.48. Lu. 10.20. Ro. 11.5. Re. 3.5; 21.27. Eze. 13.9. Ezr. 2.59,62.
4When the Lord shall have washed away hthe filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and iby the spirit of burning.
h Zec. 13.1. ch. 3.16; 1.21-23; 5.7. Mat. 23.35,37; 27.25. 1Th. 2.15,16. Ac. 7.52. Eze. 16.6. Joel 3.21. Mal. 3.2,3. i Eze. 22.21. Mat. 3.11,12. 1Co. 6.11. ch. 28.6.
5And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a jcloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for 6upon all the kglory shall be 7a defence.
6Or, above.
7Heb. a covering. Mi. 7.15. 1Pe. 1.18,19. Ac. 26.17. ch. 26.1. Ps. 125.1. Zec. 2.5.
j ch. 32.18; 33.21; 62.6. Zec. 2.5. 1Pe. 4.14; 3.13. Ps. 121.6. Ex. 13.21; 40.34. k ch. 46.13; 61.3; 49.3. Ps. 87.3.
6And there shall be a l*tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a *covert from storm and from rain.
*tabernacle-tent, dwelling.
*covert-shelter, hiding place.
l Le. 26.11,12. Ps. 91.1; 27.5; 121.5-8. ch. 25.4; 32.2; 8.14. He. 6.18. Re. 7.16.