Isaiah 4:1
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
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Genesis 30:23She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
2 Samuel 6:23Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
Isaiah 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 10:20It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 17:7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Luke 1:25“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach amongst 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 →