Bereft Deserted Desolate Destitute Emptied Gates Ground Lament Lamented Mourn Mourned Openings Places Public Ravaged Seated Sit Sitteth Sorrow Stripped Towns Uncovered Utterly Waste Weeping Yea Zion
3:26 Gates - The gates of Zion or Jerusalem, which, by a figure, are said to lament, to imply the great desolation of the place; that there would be no people to go out and come in by the gates, as they used to do. Shall sit - Like a mournful woman bewailing the loss of her husband and children.
3:16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the just punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornaments they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, would have been ridiculed then as now. Their fashions differed much from those of our times, but human nature is the same. Wasting time and money, to the neglect of piety, charity, and even of justice, displease the Lord. Many professors at the present day, seem to think there is no harm in worldly finery; but were it not a great evil, would the Holy Spirit have taught the prophet to expose it so fully? The Jews being overcome, Jerusalem would be levelled with the ground; which is represented under the idea of a desolate female seated upon the earth. And when the Romans had destroyed Jerusalem, they struck a medal, on which was represented a woman sitting on the ground in a posture of grief. If sin be harboured within the walls, lamentation and mourning are near the gates.
Bereft Deserted Desolate Destitute Earth Emptied Gates Ground Lament Mourn Mourned Openings Places Public Ravaged Seated Sit Sitteth Sorrow Stripped Towns Uncovered Utterly Waste Weeping Zion
Bereft Deserted Desolate Destitute Earth Emptied Gates Ground Lament Mourn Mourned Openings Places Public Ravaged Seated Sit Sitteth Sorrow Stripped Towns Uncovered Utterly Waste Weeping Zion
