1 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, take away our reproach. 2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem. 4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.
Isaiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Isaiah 4 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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Cross references (6)
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- 1 Genesis 30:23; Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 13:12; Luke 21:22; Luke 1:25
- 2 Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 3:8; Isaiah 27:6; Joel 2:32
- 3 Luke 10:20; Isaiah 60:21; Psalm 69:28; Isaiah 52:1; Revelation 21:27
- 4 Malachi 3:2–3; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 3:11–12
- 5 Exodus 13:21–22; Nehemiah 9:12; Exodus 40:34–38; Numbers 9:15–22; Psalm 78:14
- 6 Isaiah 25:4; Psalm 27:5; Isaiah 32:2; Proverbs 18:10; Isaiah 8:14
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Now in the last days, when the fulness of the time of liberty had arrived, the Word Himself did by Himself "wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion," when He washed the disciples' feet with His own hands.
… Levi, and pour them out like gold and silver?" Similarly Isaiah says, "The Lord shall wash the filthiness of the sons and daughters of Zion, and shall cleanse away the blood from their midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning." Unless perhaps we should say that they are cleansed from filthiness and in a manner …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The Lord will wash away the filth of His sons and of His daughters by the Spirit of judgment, and by the Spirit of burning.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)