Isaia 4:2-6

2 In quel giorno il Germoglio del Signore sarà ad onore ed a gloria; e il frutto della terra ad altezza, ed a magnificenza a que’ d’Israele, che saranno scampati.

3 E avverrà, che chi sarà restato in Sion, e rimasto in Gerusalemme, sarà chiamato santo; e che chiunque è scritto a vita sarà in Gerusalemme;

4 quando il Signore avrà lavate le brutture delle figliuole di Sion, ed avrà nettato il sangue di Gerusalemme del mezzo di essa, in ispirito di giudicio, ed in ispirito di ardore.

5 E il Signore creerà sopra ogni stanza del monte di Sion, e sopra le sue raunanze, di giorno, una nuvola con fumo; e di notte, uno splendore di fuoco fiammeggiante: perciocchè vi sarà una coverta sopra tutta la gloria.

6 E vi sarà una tenda per ombra di giorno, per ripararsi dal caldo; per ricetto e nascondimento dal nembo e dalla pioggia.

Isaia 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.