The Purged Remnant Dwells beneath Protective Glory

After filth is washed, a surviving Zion is named holy

In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. He that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

Cleansing follows the bloodshed already named. The remnant is a purged people, not a racial remainder and not a modern land deed. Zion poetry here is restoration after judgment; it does not grant nationalist immunity or supersessionist possession.

Cloud, fire, shade, and covert return as protective glory

The LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

The wilderness-cloud and the booth against heat are images of God covering the assemblies that remain. They are not a charter to fence people out, and they are not a license to control women because daughters of Zion were named in the washing.