Isaiah 4

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:1

Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one manThe climax of Zion’s ruinThis verse should be part of the preceding chapter, the very climax, indeed, of the ruin which Zion has brought upon herself.(Read Isaiah 3:25-26.) In this verse the course of nature is inverted. This is the ruin which sin always works. The picture is that of a country desolated by war, and when the census comes to be taken it is found that there are seven women to one man. The men are murdered, the strong... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:2-6

Isaiah 4:2-6In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and gloriousThe first personal reference in Isaiah to the MessiahIf this is a reference to Christ, critics are agreed that it is the first personal reference to the Messiah which Isaiah has yet given.(J. Parker, D. D.)A pleasing contrastWhat so beautiful as that a branch should appear in this wilderness of lava! Blessed are they who can turn away from the desert and look at the garden. (J. Parker, D. D.)A branchThen the fountains... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:3

Isaiah 4:3He that is left in ZionThe holy remnant“Holy” means what is separated from the world and superior to it; the congregation of the saints, or holy ones, who now inhabit Jerusalem, are what remain after a smelting; their holiness is the consequence of a washing.(F. Delitzsch.)God has never yet left the world without a nucleus of heavenHe has drowned the world, but left a seed to build an altar; He has burned the Gomorrahs of the world, but He has allowed the faithful to escape, and to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:5

Isaiah 4:5A cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by nightThe pillar cloud of Israel--Christ, the Leader of His Church (with Exodus 13:21-22):--It was good for the Israelites that they were so long in the wilderness.There the most impressive intimations of a present Deity followed their every step. Miracles were wrought, to feed them when hungry, and to satisfy their thirsty souls. Jesus was in the manna--“I am the living Bread which came down from heaven.” There, in the form... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:6

Isaiah 4:6And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadowA substantial shadow amid the insubstantialsThe tabernacles of the Old Testament typify the abiding glory of that true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not marl They were taken down.This abideth evermore. The dissolving process of death only developed the capacity of the Divine Redeemer to become a universal tabernacle. Isaiah saw the Divine King in all His beauty and in all His adaptedness for the world’s deep needs when he declared,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

Isa 4:1 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. Ver. 1. And in that day, ] sc., That day of desolation. Isa 3:26 Seven women, ] i.e., Many women. See the like Zechariah 8:23 . The women had been grievously threatened, Isa 3:16-24 the men also for their sakes, Isa 3:25-26 and yet the prophet hath not done with them. So heinous is sin in either sex. ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

Isa 4:2 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. Ver. 2. In that day the branch of the Lord. ] Here the prophet draweth to a close of this excellent sermon, and he concludeth it as he began, with a gracious promise of the coming and kingdom of Christ, and of the felicity of his subjects, which consisteth, first, In their sanctity; Isa 4:3-4 secondly, In their security.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

Isa 4:3 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: Ver. 3. He that is left in Zion. ] See Isaiah 4:2 . Shall be called holy. ] Heb., Holy shall be said to him or of him: he shall have the name and note of a saint, the comfort and the credit of it. Christ’s holiness shall be both imputed and imparted unto them: he shall both expiate their sins and heal... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

Isa 4:4 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. Ver. 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth. ] The ordure or excrement: a sin is the excrement of the soul, the superfluity or garbage of naughtiness, the devil’s vomit. From this abominable filth Christ hath "loved and washed his with his own blood, that he may make them kings... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

Isa 4:5 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. Ver. 5. And the Lord will create. ] For the safeguard and security of his peculiar people thus purified unto himself, Tit 2:14 and that they may serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all and every day of their lives. Luk 1:74-75 God, rather than fail, will... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:1

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:2-6

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:3

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:5

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 4:6

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

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