1 And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, 'Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.' 2 In that day is the Shoot of Jehovah for desire and for honour, And the fruit of the earth For excellence and for beauty to the escaped of Israel. 3 And it hath been, he who is left in Zion, And he who is remaining in Jerusalem, 'Holy' is said of him, Of every one who is written for life in Jerusalem. 4 If the Lord hath washed away The filth of daughters of Zion, And the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst, By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard, 6 And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!
Isaiah · Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 4 Young's Literal Translation
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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)