Isaiah 4:1
On that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, 1 “Our own food we will eat, our own clothing we will wear. 1 But let us take your name to remove our shame.” 1
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Genesis 30:23She conceived and bore a son. She said, “God has taken away my shame.”
2 Samuel 6:23So Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no children to the day of her death.
Isaiah 2:17The pride of man will be brought low, and the haughtiness of men will fall; 1 Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. 1
Isaiah 10:20On that day, the remnant of Israel, the family of Jacob that has escaped, will no longer rely on the one who defeated them, but will indeed depend on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. 1
Isaiah 17:7On that day men will look toward their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. 1
Luke 1:25“This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked at me with favor in order to take away my shame before people.”
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 →