CHAPTER 4 Zion’s Future Cleansing and Glory 1. Israel regathered and cleansed (Isaiah 4:2-4 ) 2. Jehovah’s visible glory revealed (Isaiah 4:5-6 ) The Branch of the Lord (Jehovah) is the Lord Jesus Christ. After judgment has been executed cleansing is promised and glory is established on Mount Zion. read more
4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the {f} blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of {g} judgment, and by the spirit of burning.(f) That is, the cruelty, extortion, malice and all wickedness.(g) When things will be addressed that were amiss. read more
GENERAL DISCOURSES The first five chapters of Isaiah form a natural division, to which, for want of a better title, we give that of General Discourses, or messages. The first is limited to chapter 1, the second covers chapters 2-4, and the third chapter 5. But first notice the introduction, Isaiah 1:1 . By what word is the whole book described? What genealogy of the prophet is given? To which kingdom was he commissioned, Israel or Judah? In whose reigns did he prophesy? Examine 2 Kings,... read more
The "Branch" Isaiah 4:0 This verse should be part of the preceding chapter, the very climax, indeed, of the ruin which Zion has brought upon herself. Read chap. Isaiah 3:25-26 : "Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground." Then follows: "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... read more
Here we have the blessed process of grace, by which the Lord will accomplish the divine purposes of his love, in redeeming the souls of his people. The daughters of Zion are here spoken of, as a representation of the whole church of Jesus. So the church is named, Psalms 45:10-11 . This church is considered in her pollutions, such as she was when Christ came to redeem her, Ezekiel 16:3-6 . But when, in gospel days, Jesus is come, and the fountain in his blood is opened to the house of David, and... read more
Burning. By baptism of water and fire, or of the Holy Ghost. (St. Jerome) read more
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
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
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
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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:1-6
2CHAPTER IITHE THREE JERUSALEMS740-735 B.C.Isaiah 2:1-22; Isaiah 3:1-26; Isaiah 4:1-6AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, of greater length, but nearly as distinct as the first. It covers four chapters, the second to the sixth, all of them dating from the same earliest period of Isaiah’s ministry, before 735 B.C. They deal with exactly the same subjects, but they differ greatly inform. One section (chapters 2-4.)... read more