Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 4:1

"And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach." — Isaiah 4:1 (ASV)

And in that day seven women ... — The chapter division wrongly separates this verse from the preceding one. It comes as the climax of the chastisement of the daughters of Zion, as the companion picture to Isaiah 3:6. Just as men sought eagerly, yet in vain, for a protector, so women would seek a husband. Those who had been wooed and courted, and had been proudly fastidious, would plead in eager rivalry (the seven women to one man implies a land depopulated by war, thus making polygamy natural) for the protection of marriage—and this, not on the usual conditions of having food and clothing provided for them (Exodus 21:10), but by working for their own livelihood.

To take away our reproach. — It is better understood as an imperative: you take away. The reproach is that of being childless. From the Jewish standpoint, this was not only the great sorrow but also the great shame of womanhood, implying, as men thought, a sin for which it was the chastisement (Genesis 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6; Luke 1:25).