Isaiah 4
6 verses
This brief chapter pivots from judgment to hope, offering a vision of restoration where seven women will seize hold of one man (representing the remnant period when the number of survivors will be dramatically reduced but the nation will ultimately find security in the LORD). The text shifts the metaphor from judgment's stripping away to a future glorification where survivors of the remnant will be called holy and written in the book of life. Isaiah invokes the "Branch of the LORD" as a sign of beauty and glory for those who escape the judgment, introducing messianic language that will echo throughout the book. The promise of a shelter and a shade from the heat suggests divine protection and comfort for the purified remnant, employing both judgment and restoration in a divine rhythm. The concept of cleansing appears again—the "spirit of judgment" and "spirit of burning" will purify Jerusalem's daughters, indicating that judgment itself serves a redemptive purpose. This chapter demonstrates Isaiah's theological conviction that judgment is not final but rather a purifying agent that enables the emergence of a holy people. The connection between the remnant, the Branch, and future glory establishes a trajectory toward the messianic hope that sustains the entire prophecy.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
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In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
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When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
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And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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