Isaiah 4 WEB
Summary: The chapter opens with a grim picture of judgment's aftermath: so many men will have died that seven women will cling to one man, asking only to bear his name and remove their reproach. It then turns to hope, describing "the branch of the LORD" as beautiful and glorious, and a remnant left in Zion called holy, purged by a spirit of judgment and burning. Over Mount Zion the LORD will create a canopy of cloud by day and fire by night, echoing the wilderness pillar, providing shelter from heat, storm, and rain. The short chapter thus pairs devastating loss with the promise of a cleansed, divinely protected remnant.
1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
2In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
3It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
5Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
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