And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle. And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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