Isaiah 4
4
1That will be the day when seven women
will gang up on one man, saying,
“We’ll take care of ourselves,
get our own food and clothes.
Just give us a child. Make us pregnant
so we’ll have something to live for!”
God’s Branch
2-4And that’s when God’s Branch will sprout green and lush. The produce of the country will give Israel’s survivors something to be proud of again. Oh, they’ll hold their heads high! Everyone left behind in Zion, all the discards and rejects in Jerusalem, will be reclassified as “holy”—alive and therefore precious. God will give Zion’s women a good bath. He’ll scrub the bloodstained city of its violence and brutality, purge the place with a firestorm of judgment.
5-6Then God will bring back the ancient pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and mark Mount Zion and everyone in it with his glorious presence, his immense, protective presence, shade from the burning sun and shelter from the driving rain.
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Isaiah 4
4
1On that day seven women
will seize one man,#Is 3:25 saying,
“We will eat our own bread
and provide our own clothing.
Just let us bear your name.
Take away our disgrace.”#Gn 19:31–32; 30:23; Neh 1:3; Is 54:4; Lk 1:25
Zion’s Future Glory
2On that day the Branch#4:2 Or plant of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious,#2Sm 23:4–5; Ps 132:17; Jr 23:5; 33:15; Zch 3:8; 6:12 and the fruit of the land#Ps 72:16; Is 27:6 will be the pride and glory#Is 3:18 of Israel’s survivors.#Gn 45:7; Jdg 21:17; 2Kg 19:30–31; Is 10:20; 37:31–32; Jl 2:32; Ob 17 3Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem#Is 28:5; Rm 11:4–5 will be called holy#Is 52:1; 62:12 — all in Jerusalem written in the book of life#4:3 Lit Jerusalem recorded for life#Ex 32:32; Ps 69:28; 87:6; 139:16; Is 49:16; Ezk 13:9; Mal 3:16; Lk 10:20; Ac 13:48 — 4when the Lord has washed away the filth#2Ch 4:6; Ezk 40:38; Zch 13:1 of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodguilt#Is 1:15; 3:13–15 from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment#Is 28:6 and a spirit of burning.#Is 1:31; 9:19; 33:14; Mal 3:2; Mt 3:11; Lk 3:17 5Then the Lord will create#Gn 1:1; Is 40:26,28; 41:20; 43:1,7,15; 45:7–8; 65:17–18 a cloud of smoke by day#Ex 13:21–22; 14:20; 40:34; Nm 9:15–23 and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,#4:5 Or For glory will be a canopy over all 6and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.#Ps 27:5; Is 25:4; 32:1–2
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