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Loose the sackcloth; ungird it and put it off; the antecedent put for the consequent, which is very usual, as hath been often noted. God would sometimes have his prophets to add to their word a visible sign, to awaken people’s minds to a more serious consideration of the matters proposed to them.
The sackcloth; either,
1. His coarse and hairy garment, which the prophets used to wear, 2Ki_1:8 Zec_13:4, as many understand it. But that is expressed by another word in the places quoted, and never, to my knowledge, by this word. Or,
2. His mournful habit, which was commonly made of sackcloth, and which he wore in token of his hearty grief for the great calamities which were already come upon Israel, and were either come or coming upon Judah.
From off thy loins; upon which the upper garments were commonly girt, 1Ki_20:32 2Ki 9.
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Walking naked; not wholly naked, which had been indecent and scandalous, and withal very dangerous, at least to do so for three years, as he did, Isa_20:3; but without his upper garment, as slaves and prisoners used to do, whose posture he was to represent, Isa_20:4. And so the word naked is used 1Sa_19:24 2Sa_6:20 Joh_21:7. Thus also men are said to be naked when they are ill clothed, as Job_22:6 Mat_25:36 1Co_4:11 Jam_2:15.
Barefoot; after the manner of mourners, 2Sa_15:30, and captives, Jer_2:25.