Isaiah 4:4 Cross References - BBE

⁴ When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

³¹ And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

¹⁶ Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go: ¹⁷ The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen. ¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments, ¹⁹ The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing, ²⁰ The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers, ²¹ The rings, and the nose-jewels, ²² The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags, ²³ The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils. ²⁴ And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free. ²⁵ Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight. ²⁶ And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

⁵ For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.

²⁰ Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over. ²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

⁶ And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.

⁹ In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

⁶ And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life; ⁷ And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing. ⁸ Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine. ⁹ Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

¹⁵ And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

¹⁸ Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. ¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. ²⁰ As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. ²¹ Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it. ²² As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

⁷ For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust; ⁸ In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered. ⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass. ¹⁰ Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned. ¹¹ And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away. ¹² I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell. ¹³ As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure. ¹⁴ I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

²⁹ And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.

²¹ And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.

¹ Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

³ Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel. ⁴ And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;

¹ In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

² But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. ³ He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

¹ For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

¹¹ Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire: ¹² In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

⁸ And he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of righteousness, and of being judged: ⁹ Of sin, because they have not faith in me; ¹⁰ Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more; ¹¹ Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.