Isaiah 4

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:26

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4

* The havoc occasioned by war. (1) The times of the Messiah. (2-6) read more

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1

1 This first verse belongs to the third chapter. When the troubles should come upon the land, as the unmarried state was deemed reproachful among the Jews, these women would act contrary to common usage, and seek husbands for themselves. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2-6

2-6 Not only the setting forth Christ's kingdom in the times of the apostles, but its enlargement by gathering the dispersed Jews into the church, is foretold. Christ is called the Branch of the Lord, being planted by his power, and flourishing to his praise. The gospel is the fruit of the Branch of the Lord; all the graces and comforts of the gospel spring from Christ. It is called the fruit of the earth, because it sprang up in this world, and was suited for the present state. It will be good... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 4:1-6

The Inviting Comeliness of the Branch of Jehovah v. 2. In that day, in the Messianic period preceding the end of the world, shall the Branch of the Lord, the great Son of David, the Messiah Himself, Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 53:2; Zechariah 3:8, be beautiful and glorious, literally, "ornament and glory," emphasizing these attributes as essential in the miraculous person of Christ, and the Fruit of the earth, the Savior Himself, product of the human race, growing up out of the house of David... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 4:1

B.—The judgment upon the godless womenIsaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:116 Moreover the Lord saith,Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,And walk with stretched forth necksAnd 1wanton eyes,Walking and 2mincing as they go,And making a tinkling with their feet:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scabThe crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,And the Lord will 3discover their secret parts.18 In that day the Lord will take awayThe bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 4:2-6

C.—The second prophetic lamp, which, in the light of the glorious divine fruit of the last time, makes known the bad fruits of the presentIsaiah 4:2 to Isaiah 5:301. THE SECOND PROPHETIC LAMP ITSELF AND THE GLORIOUS DIVINE FRUIT OF THE FUTURE DISPLAYED BY ITIsaiah 4:2-62 In that day shall 1the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious21,And the fruit of the earth shall be 3excellent and comely4For them that are escaped of Israel,3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 4:5

Isaiah THE PERPETUAL PILLAR OF CLOUD AND FIRE Isa_4:5 . The pillar of cloud and fire in the Exodus was one: there are to be as many pillars as there are ‘assemblies’ in the new era. Is it straining the language too much to find significance in that difference? Instead of the formal unity of the Old Covenant, there is a variety which yet is a more vital unity. Is there not a hint here of the same lesson that is taught by the change of the one golden lamp-stand into the seven, which are a... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 4:1-6

Vanity and Selfish Luxury Condemned Isaiah 3:13-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. The prophet enumerates the trinkets of the women of Israel, who had given themselves up to luxury and corruption. Woman is the priestess and prophetess of the home and religion, and when she forsakes the level of spiritual influence for that of physical adornment, the salt has lost its savor and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 4:1-6

In all human history there has been a close connection between corrupt rulers and frivolous and polluted womanhood. Fierce is the prophet's denunciation of such. Their wantonness and their luxury are to be ended. They are to be visited by physical diction, and the sweeping out of all the things associated with their corrupt and luxurious life, and by the death of men. The appeal ends with another description of the days following the judgment. They are to be characterized by material... read more