Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 4:2

2 In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

About and after that time: when the Lord shall have washed away (as this time is particularly expressed, v. 4.) the filth of—Zion, by those dreadful Judgments now described.

Either, 1. the Church and People of Israel, oft called Gods vine or vineyard, as we saw before, and the Branch of Gods planting, Isa. 60. 21. or, 2. the Messiah, who is commonly defined in Scripture by this Title, the Branch, Isa. 11. 1. Ier. 23. 5. & 33. 15. Zech. 3. 8. whose name is expresly said to be the Branch, Zech. 6. 12. of whom not onely Christians, but even the Hebrew Doctors understand it. For after the foregoing Miseries were brought upon the Iews, by the Remainders of the Grecian Empire, of which Daniel prophecies so exactly and particularly, and afterwards by the Roman Empire, the Messiah was born; and after that utter Destruction brought upon the Jewish City, and Temple, and Nation, by Titus, the Kingdom of the Messiah became beautiful and glorious, as it here follows.

The Land which for the Sins of the People was made barren, upon their Repentance and return to Christ shall recover its former Fertility. Under this one Mercy he seems to understand all temporal Blessings, which, together with spiritual and eternal, God shall confer upon them; and withal to intimate the Fruitfulness of the People (the earth or land being oft put for its Inhabitants) in Knowledge, and Grace, and all good works.

That shall survive all the forementioned Calamities.

Marginal references: Heb. beauty and glory.; Heb. for the escaping of Israel.