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Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, \u201cWe will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Isaiah 4:1 is part of a doomsday scenario in which the prophet warns the people of Judah of the horrors that will befall them if they don\u2019t turn away from their wickedness and turn toward God. Within this apocalyptic threat, Isaiah presents a vision of the future in which seven women will take hold of one man and throw themselves at his mercy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTake away our reproach,\u201d they will beg him. Who is he, and who are the women? What does it mean that they will eat their own bread and wear their own clothing if only he\u2019ll let them be called by his name?<\/span><\/p>\n

In a classic Isaiah-style metaphor, the women are the people of Judah, and the one man is God. This scene is Isaiah\u2019s premonition — or hope — that soon the Jewish people will see the errors of their ways and repent. That they will come begging God for redemption, begging Him to take their wrongs from them, bargaining with Him and promising to care for themselves and ask nothing of Him, if only He will take them back into His divine embrace and call them His people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Desperate, repentant sinners. Begging for His love. Pleading to be taken back. Promising to behave in exchange for being cared for. This is how Isaiah casts women.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not seven men who come begging in this way; it is women. When choosing a metaphor for the lowest point his people can reach, Isaiah chooses to depict these lowly, desperate creatures as female.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is clear from the Book of Isaiah what the prophet and scribes of his era thought of women. But when I read Isaiah 4:1, I can\u2019t help but think of the liberation of Tina Turner. In order to escape her abusive marriage, she walked away from the immense wealth accumulated during her partnership with Ike Turner. The only thing she asked for in the divorce was to keep her last name. To be free, Tina Turner was willing to \u201ceat [her] own bread, and wear [her] own clothing.\u201d She just asked to be called by the name she chose.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe for a moment that Isaiah\u2019s view of women was positive. Time and again the women of Isaiah serve as metaphors for the worst of the Jewish people. But the moment the prophet wrote these characters into existence, an opportunity arose to consider the story from their perspective. I, for one, like to imagine them as seven Tina Turners standing up for themselves and naming the terms of their own redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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