The Book of Mormon
~559–545 BC

2 Nephi 14

After desolation, women will desperately seek marriage. Then the Lord's branch will be beautiful, and survivors in Zion called holy. God will cleanse Jerusalem's filth through judgment. Divine glory will rest upon Mount Zion's gatherings like protective cloud and fire.

Seven Women Seek One Man

In that day, seven women will grab hold of one man. They will say, 'We will eat our own food and wear our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name so we can take away our shame.'

The Lord Will Make Zion Beautiful

In that day the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and great. The fruit of the earth will be wonderful and good for those who escape from Israel. Those who are left in Zion and stay in Jerusalem will be called holy. Everyone whose name is written among the living in Jerusalem will be holy. The Lord will wash away the dirt of the daughters of Zion. He will clean the blood of Jerusalem from the city by the Spirit of judgment and by the Spirit of burning. The Lord will create a cloud and smoke by day over every home on Mount Zion and over her meetings. He will create a shining flame of fire by night. All the glory of Zion will have protection. There will be a shelter for shade during the day from the heat. It will be a safe place and a cover from storms and rain.

Influences

  • 14:1 — Isaiah 4:1 (KJV)
    And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
  • 14:2 — Isaiah 4:2 (KJV)
    In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
  • 14:3 — Isaiah 4:3 (KJV)
    And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
  • 14:4 — Isaiah 4:4 (KJV)
    When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
  • 14:5 — Isaiah 4:5 (KJV)
    And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
  • 14:6 — Isaiah 4:6 (KJV)
    And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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