Isaiah 4:1
And seven women will take hold of one man, in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing, only let us be called by your name, so as to take away our reproach.”
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Genesis 30:23And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.”
2 Samuel 6:23And so, there was no child born to Michal, the daughter of Saul, even to the day of her death.
Isaiah 2:17And the loftiness of men will be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men will be brought low. And the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day.
Isaiah 10:20And this shall be in that day: those not added to the remnant of Israel, and those who escape of the house of Jacob, will not lean upon him who strikes them. Instead, they will lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 17:7In that day, a man will bow before his Maker, and his eyes will consider the Holy One of Israel.
Luke 1:25“For the Lord did this for me, at the time when he decided to take away my reproach 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 →