Verses 1-7
1-7. Cease ye from man is now the order.
For behold Attention is challenged.
The Lord ( Ha-Adon.) “The Lord” as sovereign.
The Lord of hosts The self-existent God, the revealed God; God, as it were, rallying all his forces of angels and subordinate agencies of whatever kind for such is virtually the meaning of “Jehovah of hosts.”
Doth take away Is taking, or is about to take, away.
Stay… staff Both nearly the same word, but of different genders, the one masculine, the other feminine. Together they mean every kind of support on which they had depended. God was the true “stay “and “staff.” Isaiah 10:20; Isaiah 50:10.
Bread… water Judah’s spiritual food here symbolized. Civil prosperity depends on this. Isaiah 3:9-10; Isaiah 3:16-18. The “stay” and “staff” are now particularized.
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