Jehovah of hosts strips Jerusalem and Judah of every stay and staff (bread and water, the mighty man, judge, prophet, elder, and counselor) and gives children as their princes.

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Jehovah of hosts strips Jerusalem and Judah of every stay and staff (bread and water, the mighty man, judge, prophet, elder, and counselor) and gives children as their princes. Society collapses into mutual oppression; a man seizes his brother to make him ruler because he owns a cloak, and the brother refuses. Jerusalem is ruined because tongue and deeds are set against Jehovah; the people declare their sin like Sodom. Jehovah enters into judgment with the elders and princes who have eaten up the vineyard and ground the face of the poor. The chapter then turns to the haughty daughters of Zion, cataloguing the finery to be taken away (anklets, crescents, nose-jewels, hand-mirrors), replaced by rottenness, rope, baldness, and sackcloth, while the men fall by the sword and the city sits desolate on the ground.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–8 Jerusalem's Props Removed, Children Made Princes
B. 9–15 The Elders Who Have Eaten Up the Vineyard
C. 16–26 The Haughty Daughters of Zion Stripped Bare

Top cross-references8 chapters ▾

Judges 83 verses
- Judges 8:18Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”
- Judges 8:21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.
- Judges 8:26The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
- Read Judges 8 →
Lamentations 22 verses
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
- Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- Read Lamentations 2 →
Isaiah 12 verses
- Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 1:24Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.
- Read Isaiah 1 →
Ezekiel 162 verses
- Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
- Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
- Read Ezekiel 16 →

4 more chapters this one speaks with

Genesis 242 verses
- Genesis 24:30As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
- Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Read Genesis 24 →
1 Peter 31 verse
- 1 Peter 3:3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
- Read 1 Peter 3 →
Leviticus 261 verse
- Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Read Leviticus 26 →
Ezekiel 41 verse
- Ezekiel 4:16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- Read Ezekiel 4 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.