Isaiah 4:1
Good News Translation
When that time comes, seven women will grab hold of one man and say, "We can feed and clothe ourselves, but please let us say you are our husband, so that we won't have to endure the shame of being unmarried."

New Revised Standard Version
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes; just let us be called by your name; take away our disgrace.”

Contemporary English Version
When this happens, seven women will grab the same man, and each of them will say, "I'll buy my own food and clothes! Just marry me and take away my disgrace."

New American Bible
Seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying: “We will eat our own food and wear our own clothing; Only let your name be given us, put an end to our disgrace!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

and in

Isaiah 2:11,17 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. . . .

Isaiah 10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 17:7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

Luke 21:22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.

seven

Isaiah 3:25,26 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle. . . .

Isaiah 13:12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

we will eat

2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

let us be called by thy name.

to take away.

Genesis 30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:

Luke 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.

Context
A Remnant in Zion
1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.2In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.…
Cross References
Luke 1:25
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.

Genesis 30:23
And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

Isaiah 3:6
For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.

Isaiah 13:12
A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

Isaiah 54:4
Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.

Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

Isaiah 3:26
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