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Summary of 4:2-6

On the day of messianic salvation, the Branch of the Lord
will be glorious, the fruit of the land will be the pride and
glory of the remnant, the just, who have survived the invasion.
For the Lord will have washed away the filth. And as of old, He
will put a cloud of smoke by day and a shining pillar by night.

Comments on 4:2-6


The branch of (<semah>) the Lord" means the Messiah. The Targums
regularly take that word as standing for the messiah. Here the
vision of the prophet shifts from the destruction of chapter 4 to
the age just after the destruction, or even to the age of the
Messiah. Such shifts occur many times in Isaiah, and help to show
that the picture of three Isaiahs, so that one predicts
punishment, the second speaks of exile, the third of restoration
is too artificial. There are so many alternations of images and
moods, as we see here.

It is a remnant that will enjoy the age. Isaiah often speaks
of the remnant, e. g., also in 6:13. The word remnant was also
used for those who remained after the wanderings in the
wilderness and finally entered the promised land. It also refers
to those who escaped the Assyrian deportation from the northern
kingdom(cf. 2 Chr. 30:6; 34:9) to those left by the Babylonians
in Judah after the destruction, and to those who returned from
the great exile. There was also talk of a faithful remnant at a
time of national apostasy; Elijah thought of himself as such a
remnant) 1 Kgs. 19:10. St. Paul also speaks in Romans of a
remnant who did not reject Christ.