Isaiah 4:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ Jehovah will wash away the filth of the daughters (women) of Zion and purge the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning.

¹⁶ Jehovah also said: »Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet, ¹⁷ »Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.« ¹⁸ On that day Jehovah will take away their fine things: jingling anklets, headbands, crescent-shaped necklaces, ¹⁹ pendants, bracelets, scarves, ²⁰ hats, ankle bracelets, blouses, perfume boxes, charms, ²¹ signet rings, nose rings, ²² fine robes, coats, shawls, purses, ²³ mirrors, underwear, headdresses, and veils. ²⁴ Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks. ²⁵ Your men will be killed by the sword, in war. ²⁶ Her (Zion’s) gates will lament and mourn and she will sit on the ground deserted.

⁶ He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who repel the attack at the gate.

¹⁵ »When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.

³¹ Strong people will become tinder for a fire. Their work will be the spark. Both of them will burn together. There will be no one to put out the fire.

⁵ Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until his rage has passed by. ²¹ Behold! Jehovah is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose (reveal) the bloodshed upon her. She will conceal her slain no longer.

⁹ In her skirts were her unclean ways. She did not think of the future. Her fall has been a wonder. She has no comforter: »See her sorrow, O Jehovah, for the enemy is lifted up.«

⁶ »‘»When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ ⁷ »‘I made you numerous like plants of the field. You grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments. Your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.«’ ⁸ »‘Then I passed by you and saw that you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord Jehovah. ⁹ »‘Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

¹⁵ ‘»I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

¹⁸ »Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. ¹⁹ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross (impure) (worthless). ²⁰ ‘»As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you there and melt (liquefy) you. ²¹ ‘»I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath. You will be melted in the midst of it. ²² ‘»As silver is melted in the furnace, you will be melted in the midst of her. You will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath on you.«’

⁷ »»Her blood is in her midst. She placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. ⁸ ‘»That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, that it may not be covered.’ ⁹ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ ‘»Heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Boil the flesh well and mix in the spices and let the bones be burned. ¹¹ ‘»Then set it empty on its coals so that it may be hot and its copper may glow and its filthiness may be melted in it. Let its rust be consumed. ¹² ‘»She has made me tire with toil, yet her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire!’ ¹³ ‘»In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, yet you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again until I have spent my anger on you. ¹⁴ ‘»I, Jehovah, have spoken. It is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry! I will judge you according to your ways and according to your deeds.’ This is a declaration of the Lord Jehovah.«

²⁵ »I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

²⁹ »‘I will rescue you from all your uncleanness. I will make the grain grow so that you will never again have famines.

²¹ »I will cleanse (forgive) their blood [guilt] that which I have not cleansed. Jehovah dwells in Zion!«

¹ Woe to the oppressive city for she is rebellious and polluted (defiled)!

³ Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. ⁴ He spoke to those who stood before him: »Take the filthy garments from him. Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel.«

¹ »A fountain for sin and for uncleanness will be opened for the house of David.«

⁹ »I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: ‘It is my people!’ They will say: ‘Jehovah is my God!«’

² »Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? He is like a refiner's fire and like laundry soap (the lye of laundrymen). ³ »He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. He will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer to Jehovah offerings in righteousness.

¹ Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: »The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

¹¹ »I baptize you with water because of your repentance. He that comes after me is mightier than I. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. I am not even good enough to carry his sandals. ¹² »His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.«

³⁷ »Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

⁸ »Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. ⁹ »First of sin because they do not practice active faith in me. ¹⁰ »Second, of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will not see me anymore. ¹¹ »And third, of judgment because the prince of this world has been judged.