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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

By the foregoing threatenings Jerusalem is brought into a very deplorable condition: every thing looks melancholy. But here the sun breaks out from behind the cloud. Many exceedingly great and precious promises we have in these verses, giving assurance of comfort which may be discerned through the troubles, and of happy days which shall come after them, and these certainly point at the kingdom of the Messiah, and the great redemption to be wrought out by him, under the figure and type of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious ,.... When the beauty of the Jewish women shall be taken away, and their men shall he slain; by whom is meant, not the righteous and wise men left among the Jews, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra; nor Hezekiah; which is the sense of some, as the latter observes: but the Messiah, as Kimchi, and so the Targum, which paraphrases the words thus, "at that time shall the Messiah of the Lord be for joy and glory;' and the Septuagint... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem ,.... These are the persons to whom Christ appears beautiful and glorious, excellent and comely, who will be left, and remain in Zion and Jerusalem; by which is meant the Gospel church, or church as in the latter day; in which these shall continue, abide by the truths and doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances thereof, and persevere unto the end; even when Christ shall take his fan in his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

When F14 Or, "for the Lord shall wash away"; so Noldius, in Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 88. No. 428. which gives a reason why he "that is left in Zion, &c; shall be called holy"; because "the Lord", &c.; so the Septuagint version, οτι εκπλυνει ; and Aben Ezra observes, that אם , "if", is used for כי , "because." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2

The branch of the Lord "the branch of Jehovah" - The Messiah of Jehovah, says the Chaldee. And Kimchi says, The Messiah, the Son of David. The branch is an appropriate title of the Messiah; and the fruit of the land means the great Person to spring from the house of Judah, and is only a parallel expression signifying the same; or perhaps the blessings consequent upon the redemption procured by him. Compare Isaiah 45:8 ; (note), where the same great event is set forth under similar images,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:3

Written among the living - That is, whose name stands in the enrolment or register of the people; or every man living, who is a citizen of Jerusalem. See Ezekiel 13:9 , where, "they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel," is the same with what immediately goes before, "they shall not be in the assembly of my people." Compare Psalm 69:28 ; Psalm 87:6 ; Exodus 32:32 . To number and register the people was agreeable to the law of Moses, and probably was always... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:4

The spirit of burning - Means the fire of God's wrath, by which he will prove and purify his people; gathering them into his furnace, in order to separate the dross from the silver, the bad from the good. The severity of God's judgments, the fiery trial of his servants, Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 22:18-22 ;) has set forth at large, after his manner, with great boldness of imagery and force of expression. God threatens to gather them into the midst of Jerusalem, as into the furnace; to blow the fire... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

In that day shall the branch of the Lord , etc. Some see in this passage merely a promise that in the Messianic times the produce of the soil would become more abundant than ever before, its harvests richer, and its fruitage more luxuriant. But in the light of later prophecy it is scarcely possible to shut up the meaning within such narrow limits. The "Branch" of Isaiah can hardly be isolated altogether in a sound exegesis from the "Branch" of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 23:5 ; Jeremiah 33:15 )... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

The Divine and human Messiah. This verse has been explained as a promise merely of the renewed fertility of the earth in God's day of restorings. That explanation is not, however, deep enough. It does not recognize how characteristic it was of the ancient prophets to refer to local and historical circumstances while their minds soared away to those Messianic pictures, which local incidents only suggested. The constant thought of the prophets was the ideal age and ideal person of Messiah,... read more

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