Isaiah Chapter 4

From The Open Bible Project

4:1 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."

• (a) When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.
• (b) He our husband and let us be called your wives.
• (c) For so they thought it to be without a head and husband.

4:2 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

• (d) He comforts the Church in this desolation which will spring up like a bud signifying that God’s graces should be as plentiful toward the faithful as though they sprang out of the earth, as in (Isaiah 45:8). Some by the bud of the Lord mean Christ.

4:3 It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;

• (e) He alludes to the book of life, of which read (Exodus 32:32) meaning God’s secret counsel, in which his elect are predestinated to life everlasting.

4:4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

• (f) That is, the cruelty, extortion, malice and all wickedness.
• (g) When things will be addressed that were amiss.

4:5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

• (h) He alludes to the pillar of the cloud, (Exodus 13:21), meaning that God’s favour and protection should appear in every place.
• (i) The faithful are called the glory of God because his image and tokens of his grace shine in them.

4:6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

• (k) God promises to be the defence of his Church against all troubles and dangers.