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Don`t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more.
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Forgetting a Painful Past
Commentators widely agree that this promise originally addressed Israel's collective trauma. The 'shame of youth' is identified as the slavery in Egypt, and the 'reproach of widowhood' as the desolate period of the Babylonian exile. The prophecy assures them that God's future restoration will be so glorious that these past shames will be completely overshadowed and forgotten.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Fear not ... - (See notes on Isaiah 41:10 and Isaiah 41:14).
Neither shall you be confounded - All these words mean substantia…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall forget. —The shame of your youth, was the Egyptian bondage, from which Jehovah chose Israel to be His …
Baptist
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy…
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16th Century
Protestant
Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed. Here, as formerly, he strengthens the hearts of believers and addresses the whole Church, for the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Fear not The fulfilment of these things; however unlikely and unpromising they might seem, yet God was able to perfo…
Observe the low state of religion in the world for a long time before Christianity was brought in. But by preaching the gospel, multitudes were con…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.
