Isaiah 4 EXPOSITION Isa 4:4 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 thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion (see Isa_3:16-24). Sin must not be merely repented of and pardoned; it must be put away. There could be no Jerusalem, in which all should be called holy, until the moral defilement of the daughters of Zion was swept away. Purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst (comp. Isa_1:15; Isa_59:3). It is possible, however, that the murder of infants in sacrifice to Moloch may be in the prophet’s mind. Ahaz burnt his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen (2Ch_28:3). Manasseh did the same (2Ch_33:6): and the practice was probably widespread among the people long before Isaiah’s time (see Psa_106:38; Isa_57:5). By the spirit of burning; or, by a blast of burning; i.e. a fiery blast which shall destroy everything (comp. Isa_1:31). Pulpit
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