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, to take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and comely for them that have escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory [shall be] a defense. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah · Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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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)