Isa. 4 In the extremity of evils, Christ’s glorious kingdom should appear to those who are left alive, Isa. 4:1–2. They shall be holy, Isa. 4:3; purged, Isa. 4:4. A glory and defence upon them, Isa. 4:5. A sanctuary from evils, Isa. 4:6.

In that day, of which he hath hitherto been speaking, Isaiah 2:0; Isaiah 3:0, and still continueth to speak. In that calamitous time. Seven; many. A certain number for an uncertain. Shall take hold; shall sue to him, and even lay hands upon him, contrary to their custom, and their natural modesty.

In that day; about and after that time; when the Lord shall have washed away (as this time is particularly expressed, Isa. 4:4) the filth of Zion by those dreadful judgments now described. The branch of the Lord; either, 1.

Shall be called holy, i.e. shall be really holy, as is said, Isa. 60:21. To be called is oft put for to be, as Gen. 21:12, Isa. 1:26, Isa. 44:5. Every one that is written among the living: so this is a restriction of the foregoing indefinite proposition.

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion: this shall be accomplished when God hath thoroughly cleansed the Jewish nation from their sins. The blood; the blood-guiltness, and especially that of killing the Lord of life, their own Messiah.

Will create; will in a marvellous manner produce, as it were by a new work of creation. A cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flashing fire by night; a pillar of cloud and fire, like that wherewith the Lord directed, and protected, and honoured the israelites, when they came out of Egypt;…

There shall be a tabernacle; or, he, i.e. the Lord, shall be a tabernacle, or a tent, to defend them from the violent heat of the sun, and other injuries of the weather, which was the use and benefit of tents.