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Isaiah 3

1 For the sin of the people God will take away the wise men, and give them foolish princes 14 The covetousness of the governors 16 The pride of the women.
1.For lo, the Lord God of hostes will take away from Jerusalém and from Judáh the stay and the strength: even all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water,
2.The strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the Prophet, the prudent & the aged,
3.The captain of fifty, and the honourable, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.
4.And I will appoint children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5.The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and every one by his neighbour, the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.
7.In that daie he shall swear, saying, I can not be an helper: for there is no bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.
8.Doubtless Jerusalém is fallen, and Judáh is fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9.The trial of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sins, as Sodóm, they hide them not. Wo be unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil unto them selves.
10.Say ye, Surely it shalbe well with the just: for they shall eat the fruit of their works.
11.Wo be to the wicked, it shalbe evil with him for the reward of his hands shalbe given him.
12.Children are extortioners of my people, and women have rule over them: ô my people, they that lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13.The Lord standeth up to plead, yea, he standeth to judge the people.
14.The Lord shall entry into judgement with the Ancients of his people and the princes thereof, for ye have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15.What have ye to do, that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord, even the Lord of hostes?
16.The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zión are hautie, and walk with stretched out necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
17.Therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Zión bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts.
18.In that daie shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calles, and the round tyres.
19.The sweet balls, and the bracelets, and the bonnets,
20.The tyres of the head, and the sloppes, and the head bands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21.The rings and the mufflers,
22.The costly apparel and the veils, and the wimpels, and the crisping pinnes,
23.And the glasses & the fine linen, & the hoods, & the launes.
24.And in stead of sweet savour, there shalbe stink, and in stead of a girdle, a rent, and in stead of dressing of the hair, baldness, and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth, and burning in stead of beauty.
25.Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy strength in the battle.
26.Then shall her gates mourn and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

Notes

1-a.
Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity, he shows that they should be taken from them.
2-b.
The temporal governor and the minister.
3-c.
By these he means that God would take away every thing that was in any estimation, and wherein they had any occasion to vaunt themselves.
4-d.
Not only in age, but in wit, manners knowledge and strength.
5-e.
For lack of good regiment and order.
6-f.
He shows that this plague shall be so horrible that contrary to the common manner of men, which by nature are ambitious, none shall be found able or willing to be their governor.
7-g.
Fear shall rather cause him to forswear himself, then to take such a dangerous charge upon him.
9-h.
When God shall examine their deeds, whereupon they now set an impudent face, he shall find the mark of their impiety in their forehead.
10-i.
Be you that are godly assured that God will defend you in the midst of these troubles.
12-k.
Because the wicked people were more dedicate to their princes, then to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by which they should have no help, but that should be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they should be fools and effem- inate.
14-l.
Meaning, that the rulers and governors had destroyed his Church and not preserved it, according to their duty.
15-m.
That is, you show all cruelty against them.
16-n.
He menaces the people, because of the arrogancy and pride of their women, which gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution.
16-o.
Which declared their pride.
16-p.
As a sign, that they were not chaste.
16-q.
Which showed their wantonness.
16-r.
They delight them in slippers that did creak, or had little plates sewed upon them, which tinkled as they went.
23-s.
In rehearsing all these things particularly, he shows the lightness and vanity of such as can not be content with comely apparel according to their degree.
25-t.
Meaning, that God will not only punish the women, but their husbands, which have suffered this dissoluteness, and also the common wealth, which have not remedied it.