23 And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoods and the [a]lawns.

24 And instead of sweet savor, there shall be stink, and instead of girdle, a rent, and instead of dressing of the hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the [b]sword, and thy strength in the battle.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:23 In rehearsing all these things particularly, he showeth the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel according to their degree.
  2. Isaiah 3:25 Meaning, that God will not only punish the women, but their husbands which have suffered this dissoluteness, and also the commonweal, which hath not remedied it.

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