Isaiah 4:2-4

The Branch of the LORD

2 In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.

3 Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit^[a] of judgment and a spirit^[b] of fire.

Isaiah 4:2-4 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. S Isaiah 2:11
• 2. Isaiah 11:1-5; Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:2; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Jeremiah 33:15-16; Ezekiel 17:22; Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12
• 3. Isaiah 33:17; Isaiah 53:2
• 4. S Psalms 72:16; Ezekiel 36:8
• 5. Isaiah 60:15; Ezekiel 34:29
• 6. S Isaiah 1:9
• 7. S Isaiah 1:26
• 8. Isaiah 1:9; Romans 11:5
• 9. S Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 26:2; Isaiah 45:25; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 60:21; Joel 3:17; Obadiah 1:17; Zephaniah 3:13
• 10. S Psalms 56:8; S Psalms 87:6; S Luke 10:20
• 11. Isaiah 3:24
• 12. S Song of Songs 3:11
• 13. S Psalms 51:2
• 14. S Isaiah 1:15
• 15. Isaiah 28:6
• 16. S Isaiah 1:31; S Isaiah 30:30; S Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:17

Footnotes

• [a] Or "the Spirit"
• [b] Or "the Spirit"