Isaiah 4:1

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1 And ^ain that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
“We will ^beat our own food and wear our own apparel;
Only let us be called by your name,
To take away ^cour reproach.”

The Renewal of Zion

2 In that day ^athe Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing
For those of Israel who have escaped.

3 And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem ^awill be called holy—everyone who is ^brecorded among the living in Jerusalem.

4 When ^athe Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the¹ blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,

5 then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, ^aa cloud and smoke by day and ^bthe shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a¹ covering.

6 And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, ^afor a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.

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Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 4:1

And seven women - The division of the chapters has interrupted the prophet' s discourse, and broken it off almost in the midst of the sentence. "The numbers slain in battle shall be so great, that seven women shall be left to one man." The prophet has described the greatness of this distress by images and adjuncts the most expressive and forcible. The young women, contrary to their natural modesty, shall become suitors to the men: they will take hold of them, and use the most pressing importunity to be married. In spite of the natural suggestions of jealousy, they will be content with a share only of the rights of marriage in common with several others; and that on hard conditions, renouncing the legal demands of the wife on the husband, (see Exodus 21:10), and begging only the name and credit of wedlock, and to be freed from the reproach of celibacy. See Isaiah 54:4, Isaiah 54:5. Like Marcia, on a different occasion, and in other circumstances: -

Da tantum nomen inane

Connubii: liceat tumulo scripsisse , Catonis Marcia .

Lucan, 2:342.

"This happened," says Kimchi, "in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judea one hundred and twenty thousand men in one day; see II Chronicles 18:6. The widows which were left were so numerous that the prophet said, ' They are multiplied beyond the sand of the sea,' " Jeremiah 15:8.

In that day - These words are omitted in the Septuagint, and MSS.

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