Verse 24
24. It shall come to pass The divine judgment against this luxurious finery is, that in place of sweet smell aromatics, spicy fragrance, and the like, upon the garments of the person, (Roberts says, “No one ever enters a company without being perfumed,”) there shall be stink a stench from dead bodies.
Instead of a girdle An ornament for the waist; used, also, to hold up the gathers of the long outer robe when engaged in active employment.
A rent Better, a rope; either an emblem of poverty or of captivity: in the latter case the proud females being thereby hauled along in the train of conquerors.
Well set hair Hair curiously braided and adorned.
Baldness In this connexion made so by the razor, the hair being shaved off; as conquerors of old time resorted to the last degree of humiliations upon their captives.
Stomacher It is matter of uncertainty what is meant by this. Most concur in its being a plaited or stiffened ornament worn on the breast, or a broad plaited girdle for the breast.
A girding of sackcloth The material only changed. “Sackcloth” was of the coarsest material, and worn only in affliction.
Burning A sunburnt face, from the exposures of captivity and slavery. This, instead of the fair complexion and the well adorned person in a highly civilized and luxurious life.
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