On that day seven women will seize one man, saying, ‘We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothing. Just let us bear your name. Take away our disgrace.’
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, ‘You have a cloak #– #you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.’
‘Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced. For you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.
I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors.