Dusk over Jerusalem’s height: a vast, soft canopy of cloud spread over the city, faintly lit from within, the flat roofs quiet below and one lamp in a window.

Zion on trial

Isaiah 4

Where do you run when the storm comes?

6 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1–5Zion on trialJudah’s sin, the mountain raised, the vineyard’s songChapter 4
6Holy, holy, holyIsaiah’s call, in the year King Uzziah died (about 740 BC)
7–12ImmanuelAhaz’s fear, the sign, the Child, the shoot of Jesse
13–23The nations judgedBabylon to Tyre: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
24–27The whole earthThe earth laid waste, and death swallowed up
28–35Woe and a KingEgypt’s help or the LORD’s, and the King in His beauty
36–39Hezekiah’s crisisSennacherib, 701 BC: the prayer, the sickness, the envoys
40–48Comfort My peopleTo the exiles ahead: Cyrus, the idols, the Servant
49–55The Servant and ZionPierced for our transgressions; Zion restored
56–66New heavens and earthA house of prayer, the Anointed One, all things new

A Remnant in Zion

Isaiah

In that day seven women

will take hold of one man and say,

“We will eat our own bread

and provide our own clothes.

Just let us be called by your name.

Take away our disgrace!”

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Isaiah

On that day the Branch of the LORD

will be beautiful and glorious,

and the fruit of the land

will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 4:2

Isaiah

Whoever remains in Zion

and whoever is left in Jerusalem

will be called holy—

all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

Isaiah

Isaiah

when the Lord has washed away

the filth of the daughters of Zion

and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem

by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Isaiah

Night over Jerusalem’s height: a towering column of cloud stands over the temple, glowing from within with soft firelight, the flat-roofed city asleep below.

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion

and over her assemblies

a cloud of smoke by day

and a glowing flame of fire by night.

Isaiah

A deep rock overhang on a Judean hillside: heavy rain sweeps the valley outside while inside, dry and dim, a shepherd’s cloak and staff lie beside a few sheltering sheep.

For over all the glory

there will be a canopy,

a shelter to give shade

from the heat by day,

and a refuge and hiding place

from the storm and the rain.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Question

Quick question

Chapter 3 ended with Zion sitting on the ground. Chapter 4 ends with Zion covered. Read 4:5 again before you answer.

What do the cloud by day and the fire by night in 4:5 recall?

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A verse to carry with you

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 4:2

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