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

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Malachi 32 verses
- Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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Ezekiel 162 verses
- Ezekiel 16:11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
- Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Read Ezekiel 16 →
Judges 82 verses
- Judges 8:21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
- Judges 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
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Genesis 242 verses
- Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
- Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
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Jeremiah 142 verses
- Jeremiah 14:2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
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1 Peter 31 verse
- 1 Peter 3:3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
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Lamentations 21 verse
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Read Lamentations 2 →
Leviticus 261 verse
- Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Read Leviticus 26 →

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