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The last two verses in our brief chapter make an obvious attempt at recalling the Exodus from Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

The LORD will create over the whole shrine and meeting place of Mount Zion cloud by day and smoke with a glow of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory shall hang a canopy, which shall serve as a pavilion for shade from heat by day and as a shelter for protection against drenching rain (5-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201ccloud by day\u201d and \u201cglow of flaming fire by night\u201d are clearly reminiscent of the pillars of cloud and fire that went before the Israelites through the wilderness (Exodus 13:22). The pavilion (<\/span>sukkah<\/span><\/i>) is equally evocative of the booths in which God enabled them to reside during that journey (Leviticus 23:43). How do those reminiscences tie into the prophecy that addresses \u201cthose who remain in Zion and are left in Jerusalem\u201d and just who \u201cshall be called holy\u201d (3)?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malbim* first drew a distinction between those \u201cwho remain in Zion\u201d deliberately and those who \u201care left in Jerusalem\u201d accidentally. He maintained that the former are the righteous, the latter, wicked.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The seer [Isaiah] provided a wonderful metaphor here. Not all will survive in Jerusalem and not all will be called holy, but just as the righteous will enjoy God\u2019s grace, the wicked will be consumed by its flame\u2026 Using as his metaphor the sun, which enlightens the clear-eyed while blinding the bat and snail, so will the light of God enlighten the righteous while burning the wicked to ashes, just as in Egypt the Israelites had light while the Egyptians suffered darkness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, he described the [future] glory of the righteous as like that which they enjoyed in the desert when God preceded them in pillars of cloud by day and fire by night, saying that God will [duplicate them] over Mt. Zion for all who will be assembled there\u2014righteous and wicked alike\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

However, only the righteous in Jerusalem will be \u201cinscribed for life\u201d (3)\u2026 while God will first \u201cwash away the filth\u201d (4) of the wicked.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The notion of theodicy (God\u2019s justice) is often challenged by the presence of wicked who prosper. Not only the righteous survive catastrophe; there are also the wicked who find shelter in the shade of the righteous and even pretend to be like them. However, Malbim emphasized that God will see that ultimately the righteous, alone, will be rewarded, while the wicked will have to endure punishment before their rehabilitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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