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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 3:24 - 3:24
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stink - arising from ulcers (Zec 14:12).
girdle - to gird up the loose Eastern garments, when the person walked.
rent - the Septuagint, better, a “rope,” an emblem of poverty; the poor have nothing else to gird up their clothes with.
well-set hair - (1Pe 3:3, 1Pe 3:4).
baldness - (Isa 3:17).
stomacher - a broad plaited girdle.
sackcloth - (2Sa 3:31).
burning - a sunburnt countenance, owing to their hoods and veils being stripped off, while they had to work as captives under a scorching sun (Son 1:6).