4.
(Isa 41:10, 14).
shame of thy youth--Israel's unfaithfulness as wife of Jehovah,
almost from her earliest history.
reproach of widowhood--Israel's punishment in her consequent dismissal
from God and barrenness of spiritual children in Babylon and her present
dispersion
(Isa 54:1;
Isa 49:21;
Jer 3:24, 25; 31:19;
Ho 2:2-5).
JFB.
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