Isaiah 4:1
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
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Genesis 30:23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
2 Samuel 6:23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
Isaiah 2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 10:20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him who smote them, but shall lean upon LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 17:7In that day men shall look to their maker, and their eyes shall have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Luke 1:25Thus the Lord has done to me during the days in which he looked, to take away my shame among men.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 4:1
In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the paucity and scarceness of man ( ver. 1 ), which might fitly enough have been added to the close of the foregoing chapter, to which it has a plain reference. II. A promise of the restoration of Jerusalem's peace and purity, righteousness and safety, in the days of the Messiah, ver. 2-6 . Thus, in wrath, mercy is remembered, and gospel grace is a sovereign relief, in reference to the terrors of the law and the desolations made by sin. Read the whole commentary →