Isaiah 4:2-6

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

2 In that day ¹the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and ²the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.

3 ³And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called ⁴holy, everyone who has ⁵been recorded for life in Jerusalem,

4 when ⁶the Lord shall have washed away the filth of ⁷the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by ⁸a spirit of burning. ^[a]

5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies ⁹a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be ¹⁰a canopy.

6 ¹¹There will be a ¹²booth for shade by day from the heat, and ¹³for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

Isaiah 4:2-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 4

The "first" verse of this chapter Isa 4:1 seems more properly to belong to the preceding chapter, which declares such a scarcity of men, through the destruction of them in war, there predicted, that there should be seven women to one man; who, contrary to their natural modesty, would make suit to him; and, contrary to custom, propose to provide their own food and raiment, only desiring to be called by his name. After which, Isa 4:2, follows a prophecy of Christ, who is described by his names, the branch of the Lord, and the fruit of the earth; and by proper epithets of him, as such, beautiful, glorious, excellent, and comely; and by the persons to whom he is so, the escaped of Israel, to whom various blessings are promised; as the sanctification of them, the source of which is their election, and the means of it the spirit of judgment and burning, Isa 4:3,4 and the protection and preservation of them, by the Lord's creating, as for Israel of old, a cloud of smoke to rest upon them by day, and a shining of flaming fire by night, and by being himself a tabernacle to screen them from heat in the day, and a place of refuge to cover them from storm and rain, Isa 4:5,6.

Cross References

• 1. 4:2 Jer. 23:5; 33:15; Zech. 3:8; 6:12
• 2. 4:2 [ch. 27:6]
• 3. 4:3 ch. 6:13; 10:20
• 4. 4:3 Obad. 17
• 5. 4:3 Ex. 32:32; Luke 10:20; Heb. 12:23; [Ps. 69:28]
• 6. 4:4 Ezek. 36:25
• 7. 4:4 ch. 3:16
• 8. 4:4 ch. 33:14; Mal. 3:2; Matt. 3:11; Luke 3:17
• 9. 4:5 Ex. 13:21
• 10. 4:5 [Rev. 7:15]
• 11. 4:6 ch. 25:4
• 12. 4:6 See Ps. 27:5
• 13. 4:6 ch. 25:4

Footnotes

• [a] 4:4 Or 'purging'