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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 4:1-6

1. The women do not claim to be kept as the man's wives, but only pray that he will remove from them the reproach of being childless (cp. Genesis 30:23), so depopulated has the land become. The v. belongs to Isaiah 3.

In that day] i.e. when the Day of God's judgment (Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 3:18) is over.

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