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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

By the foregoing threatenings Jerusalem is brought into a very deplorable condition: every thing looks melancholy. But here the sun breaks out from behind the cloud. Many exceedingly great and precious promises we have in these verses, giving assurance of comfort which may be discerned through the troubles, and of happy days which shall come after them, and these certainly point at the kingdom of the Messiah, and the great redemption to be wrought out by him, under the figure and type of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem ,.... These are the persons to whom Christ appears beautiful and glorious, excellent and comely, who will be left, and remain in Zion and Jerusalem; by which is meant the Gospel church, or church as in the latter day; in which these shall continue, abide by the truths and doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances thereof, and persevere unto the end; even when Christ shall take his fan in his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

When F14 Or, "for the Lord shall wash away"; so Noldius, in Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 88. No. 428. which gives a reason why he "that is left in Zion, &c; shall be called holy"; because "the Lord", &c.; so the Septuagint version, οτι εκπλυνει ; and Aben Ezra observes, that אם , "if", is used for כי , "because." read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

And the Lord will create on every dwelling place of Mount Zion ,.... That is, on every particular church of Christ in Gospel times, and especially in the latter day; which are the dwelling places of Father, Son, and Spirit, and of believers in Christ. The word F15 מכון a כון "paravit, disposuit". used signifies a place well fitted up, and prepared, and established, and settled; and such will be the churches of Christ in the latter day glory; they will be fitly framed together and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:3

Written among the living - That is, whose name stands in the enrolment or register of the people; or every man living, who is a citizen of Jerusalem. See Ezekiel 13:9 , where, "they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel," is the same with what immediately goes before, "they shall not be in the assembly of my people." Compare Psalm 69:28 ; Psalm 87:6 ; Exodus 32:32 . To number and register the people was agreeable to the law of Moses, and probably was always... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:4

The spirit of burning - Means the fire of God's wrath, by which he will prove and purify his people; gathering them into his furnace, in order to separate the dross from the silver, the bad from the good. The severity of God's judgments, the fiery trial of his servants, Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 22:18-22 ;) has set forth at large, after his manner, with great boldness of imagery and force of expression. God threatens to gather them into the midst of Jerusalem, as into the furnace; to blow the fire... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:5

And the Lord will create - One MS., the Septuagint, and the Arabic, have יביא yabi , He shall bring: the cloud already exists; the Lord will bring it over. This is a blessed promise of the presence of God in all the assemblies of his people. Every dwelling place "the station" - The Hebrew text has, every station: but four MSS. (one ancient) omit כל col , all; very rightly, as it should seem: for the station was Mount Zion itself, and no other. See Exodus 15:17 . And the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-4

Restoration. It is uncertain whether-there is a secondary allusion here to the coming of the Messiah; but it is certain that, in its primary sense, the passage refers to the condition of Judah after the return from exile. Treating it in this latter signification, we learn— I. THAT THE END OF DIVINE JUDGMENT IS HUMAN TRANSFORMATION . ( Isaiah 4:4 .) The Lord would "wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion … by the spirit [or, 'power'] of judgment." It may be that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

As the present prophecy (Isaiah 2-4.), though in the main one of threatening and denunciation, opened with a picture that was encouraging and comforting ( Isaiah 2:2-4 ), so new it terminates with a similar picture. The evangelical prophet, like the great apostle of the Gentiles, is unwilling that any one should be "swallowed up with overmuch sorrow." He will not separate the mercies of God from his judgments. read more

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