Isaiah:3

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* For , behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod (note :)Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity he shows that they should be taken from them .(:note ) and the staff , the whole support of bread , and the whole support of water , * The mighty man , and the man of war , (note :)The temporal governor and the minister .(:note ) the judge , and the prophet , and the prudent , and the ancient , * The captain of fifty , and the honourable man , and the counsellor , and the skilful craftsman , and the (note :)By these he means that God would take away everything that was of any value , and which they had any opportunity to want in themselves .(:note ) eloquent orator . * And I will give (note :)Not only in age : but in manners , knowledge and strength .(:note ) children [to be ] their princes , and babes shall rule over them . * And the people shall be (note :)For lack of good regiment and order .(:note ) oppressed , every one by another , and every one by his neighbour : the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder , and the base against the honourable . * When a man shall (note :)He shows that this plague will be so horrible that contrary to the common manner of men , who by nature are ambitious , no one will be found able or willing to be their governor .(:note ) take hold of his brother of the house of his father , [saying ], Thou hast clothing , be thou our ruler , and [let ] this ruin [be ] under thy hand : * In that day shall he (note :)Fear will cause him to forswear himself , rather than to take such a dangerous charge upon himself .(:note ) swear , saying , I will not be an healer ; for in my house [is ] neither bread nor clothing : make me not a ruler of the people . * Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen , and Iudah is fallen downe , because their tongue &amp ; workes are against the Lord , to prouoke the eyes of his glory . * The (note :)When God examines their deed on which they now set an impudent face , he will find the mark of their impiety in their forehead .(:note ) show of their countenance doth witness against them ; and they declare their sin as Sodom , they hide [it ] not . Woe to their soul ! for they have rewarded evil to themselves . * * Woe be to the wicked , it shalbe euill with him : for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him . * [As for ] my people , (note :)Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God , he shows that he would give them such princes , by whom they would have no help , but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath , because they would be fools and effeminate .(:note ) children [are ] their oppressors , and women rule over them . O my people , they who lead thee cause [thee ] to err , and destroy the way of thy paths . * The Lorde standeth vp to pleade , yea , hee standeth to iudge the people . * The LORD will enter into judgment with the (note :)Meaning that the rulers and governors had destroyed his Church and not preserved it , according to their duty .(:note ) elders of his people , and with their princes : for ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor [is ] in your houses . * What mean ye [that ] ye beat my people to pieces , (note :)That is , you show all cruelty against them .(:note ) and grind the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord GOD of hosts . * Moreover the LORD saith , (note :)He means the people because of the arrogancy and pride of their women who gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution .(:note ) Because the daughters of Zion are haughty , and walk with Which declared their pride . extended necks and As a sign that they were not chaste . wanton eyes , walking and Which showed their wantonness . mincing [as ] they go , and making a They delighted then in slippers that creaked or had little plates sewn on them which tinkled as they went . tinkling with their feet : * Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde , and the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes . * In that day shall the Lorde take away the ornament of the slippers , and the calles , and the round tyres , * The sweete balles , and the brasselets , and the bonnets , * The tyres of the head , and the sloppes , and the head bandes , and the tablets , and the earings , * The rings and the mufflers , * The costly apparell and the vailes , and the wimples , and the crisping pinnes , * The mirrors , and the fine linen , and the turbans , and the (note :)In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel according to their degree .(:note ) veils . * And in steade of sweete sauour , there shall be stinke , and in steade of a girdle , a rent , and in steade of dressing of the heare , baldnesse , and in steade of a stomacher , a girding of sackecloth , and burning in steade of beautie . * Thy men shall fall by the (note :)Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it .(:note ) sword , and thy mighty in the war . * Then shall her gates mourne and lament , and she , being desolate , shall sit vpon the ground .

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