Isaiah 4

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 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:Holy — Shall be really holy.Jerusalem — Of the people living in or belonging to Jerusalem. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 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.When — This shall be accomplished when God hath throughly cleansed the Jewish nation from their sins.The blood — The blood-guiltiness, and especially that of killing the Lord of life.Burning — This is opposed to the former legal way of purification, which was by water. The Holy Spirit of old... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 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.Create — Will in a marvellous manner produce, as it were by a new creation.A cloud — A pillar of cloud and fire, like that wherewith he directed the Israelites, when they came out of Egypt: whereby he implies, that God would be their protector, and their glory.The glory — Upon all that church... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 4:6

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.And there — Or, he, the Lord, shall be a tabernacle, to defend them from the heat of the sun, and other injuries of the weather. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4

The same prophecy continues, and hardly should have been disconnected from chapter 3. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1

1. The first verse completes the picture of domestic desolation on account of the scarcity of male inhabitants, destroyed by war or carried to Babylon as captives. In that day That calamitous period described as yet to come to Jerusalem. Seven women An indefinite, but a large, full number. Native modesty is laid aside; all sue to become wives to one man, on account of the great reproach of unwedded life among Jewish women. For this, they will even surrender their rights of dowry and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2

2. And now the counterpart to this fearful prophecy, which was begun in chap. Isaiah 2:1-5, is resumed, and brings this long discourse to an end. Isaiah, as with a single bound, retires from the dreary scene he has pictured, and is again rejoicing in engrossment with the future Messianic times. In that day The day of Messiah, the antitype of David. Shall the branch צמח , ( tzemach,) sprout, the outgrowth from Jehovah. Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15. In these citations the word... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:3-4

3, 4. He that is left in Zion The true descendants of the few who, amid the immoralities of Jerusalem life, and despite surrounding temptations to the contrary, preserve themselves pure and loyal to Jehovah. Shall be called holy Shall be holy. The idiom “shall be called” means this. Written among the living Those who are alive in Jerusalem; typically, who continue unto eternal life. Filth of the daughters of Zion Their vain-gloriousness; their silly and demoralizing pride and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:5

5. When such times come, the Lord will create Renew, and make holy. Every dwelling place Every household in mount Zion. “Zion,” the local, prefigures “Zion,” the universal the “Zion” of all ages and places. The palmy days of specific revelations and protections in the wilderness were a type of what, in a degree indefinably more glorious, shall be wrought upon the “Zion” of the future ages. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:6

6. Tabernacle That of Moses in the wilderness prefigures God’s pavilion, which, by Messiah, he spreads everywhere over his people. As its bridegroom, Messiah overshadows his Church. He is its canopy (an idea of which the canopy at the oriental wedding is the symbol) to shield from fierce heats and violent rains; in other words, he secures perfect protection from all moral disasters. This security the renewed Jerusalem, or Zion, shall enjoy for ever not merely in the best days of the Church... read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 4:3

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 4:4

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 4:5

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 4:6

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:3-4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:6

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