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, to take away our reproach.
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And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1)It was threatened (Isa. 3:25) that the mighty men should fall by the sword in war , and it was threatened as a punishment to the women that affected gaiety and a loose sort of conversation. Now here we have the effect and consequence of that great slaughter of men, 1. That though Providence has so wisely ordered that, communibus annis—on an average of years , there is nearly an equal number of mal…
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