Isaiah 4:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 4:3

He that is left in Zion - This “properly” refers to the remnant that should remain after the mass of the people should be cut off by wars, or be borne into captivity. If it refer to the few that would come back from Babylon, it means that they would be reformed, and would be a generation different from their fathers - which was undoubtedly true. If it refer, as the connection seems to indicate, to the times of the Messiah, then it speaks of those who are ‘left,’ while the great mass of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 4:3

Isaiah 4:3. And he that is left in Zion Those that escape the common destruction brought on their countrymen; see Isaiah 4:2; shall be called holy Shall be really such. The Jews that survived the Babylonish captivity, and returned into their own land, were greatly reformed, especially in one point, they relapsed no more into idolatry: and in other respects also a spirit of religion was revived among them. But the prophecy was much more eminently fulfilled in the first converts from... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

New life (4:2-6)Having judged his people and removed sin, God blesses the righteous that remain. This new blessing is symbolized by a tree that bursts into new life and by a field that brings fresh growth. A new Israel is born where the people of God are those whom he has saved and made holy (2-4). In the new Jerusalem God dwells among and protects his people in a relationship far more wonderful than in previous times (5-6). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 4:3

holy . See note on Exodus 3:5 . among the living = written down or destined for life. Compare Psalms 69:28 ; Psalms 87:5 , Psalms 87:6 . Malachi 3:16 . the lord* = Jehovah. purged = cast out. Hebrew duah. Compare Isaiah 1:16 . blood. Put by Figure of speech, Metonymy (of Effect), for blood-guiltiness. spirit = blast, as in Isaiah 11:4 . Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:8 . Hebrew. ruach . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 4:3-4

Isaiah 4:3-4. And it shall come to pass— The doctrine of this period is twofold; first, that God by the spirit of judgment will purify and cleanse his church; and, secondly, that those who remain written among the living, i.e. the people of the Messiah, shall become truly holy. See Philippians 4:3. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 4:3

3. left in Zion—equivalent to the "escaped of Israel" ( :-). shall be called—shall be (Isaiah 9:6). holy— (Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 60:21; Revelation 21:27). written—in the book of life, antitypically (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 17:8). Primarily, in the register kept of Israel's families and tribes. living—not "blotted out" from the registry, as dead; but written there as among the "escaped of Israel" (Daniel 12:1; Ezekiel 13:9). To the elect of Israel, rather than the saved in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 4:2-6

3. God’s determination for Israel 4:2-6Having begun this oracle by clarifying God’s desire for Israel (Isaiah 2:1-4), the prophet proceeded to contrast her present condition. She depended on people rather than Himself, a condition that would result in divine discipline (Isaiah 2:5 to Isaiah 4:1). Next, and in conclusion, he revealed that God would indeed bring what He determined for His chosen people to completion in the future (Isaiah 4:2-6). Israel’s destiny would be glorious-in spite of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 4:3-4

The divine judgments that God will bring on the Israelites in the future (in the Tribulation) will have a purifying effect on many of them, specifically the elect (cf. Isaiah 1:25; Ezekiel 36:25-26; Ezekiel 39:23-26; Daniel 9:4-19; Malachi 3:2-5; Matthew 3:11; Acts 13:48). Those left alive to the end will be holy in conduct, as well as set apart by God for His purposes. Similarly, God purified the Israelites through their oppression in Egypt and then liberated them so they could be a holy... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1-6

1. The women do not claim to be kept as the man’s wives, but only pray that he will remove from them the reproach of being childless (cp. Genesis 30:23), so depopulated has the land become. The v. belongs to Isaiah 3.In that day] i.e. when the Day of God’s judgment (Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 3:18) is over.2. Branch] not here a title of Messiah (the word is not the same in Isaiah 11:1) but referring to the verdure of the land. Fertility of the soil is often a feature of the ideal future in the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 4:3

(3) He that is left in Zion . . .—The prophet turns from the Jerusalem that then was, with the hypocrisies and crimes of the men and the harlot fashions of its women, to the vision of a new Jerusalem, which shall realise the ideal of Psalms 15, 24. There every one should be called “holy” (comp. 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1), and the name should be no unreal mockery (Isaiah 32:5), but should express the self-consecration and purity of its inhabitants.Every one that is written among the... read more