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title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "William Pringle"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 35 of 62
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/35/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2, section 35. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/35/"
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# Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2

*John Calvin, tr. William Pringle*

Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 2 of 4.

## 35. Chapter 3

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[¶0] 1 For, behold, the Governor, Jehovah of hosts, Will take away from Jerusalem and Judah The stay and the strength; The whole stay of bread; The whole stay of water;

[¶1] 2 The strong man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet, And the diviner and the elder;

[¶2] 3 The captain of fifty, and the man of rank, The senator, and the skilful artificer, and the eloquent.

[¶3] 4 And I will appoint boys to be their rulers, And babes shall rule over them.

[¶4] 5 The people shall violently oppress each other, A man his neighbour; The youth shall behave insolently towards the old man, The despicable towards the honourable.

[¶5] 6 When every man shall take hold of his brother Of the family of his father, saying, Thou hast raiment; Be thou our ruler; Let this ruin be under thy hand;

[¶6] 7 He shall swear in that day, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor raiment; Therefore make me not a ruler of the people.

[¶7] 8 Verily Jerusalem is ruined, And Judah is fallen; Because their tongue And their practices are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of his glory.

[¶8] 9 The proof of their countenance answereth in them; They have declared their sin, as Sodom, And have not hid it. Wo to their soul! For they have brought evil on them.

[¶9] 10 Say ye to the righteous man, It shall be well; For they shall eat the fruit of their hands.

[¶10] 11 Wo to the wicked man! It shall be ill; For according to the works of his hands Shall it be rewarded to him.

[¶11] 12 Of my people children are oppressors, And women rule over them. O my people! They who govern thee lead thee astray, And pervert the way of thy paths.

[¶12] 13 Jehovah standeth to plead, And standeth up to judge the people.

[¶13] 14 Jehovah will enter into judgment With the elders of his people, And with their rulers; And ye have destroyed the vineyard, And the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

[¶14] 15 What mean ye that ye crush my people, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

[¶15] 16 Jehovah also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with stretched-forth neck, And with wandering eyes, And walk and mince as they go, And make a tinkling with their feet.

[¶16] 17 Therefore will the Lord make bald The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the Lord will expose their shame.

[¶17] 18 In that day will the Lord take away Ornaments that tinkled, or were made of net-work, or like a half-moon,

[¶18] 19 Perfumes, bracelets, and head-hands;

[¶19] 20 Bonnets, ornaments of the legs, Chaplets, neck-amulets, and ear-rings;

[¶20] 21 Rings and nose-jewels,

[¶21] 22 Changeable dresses, mantles, Upper garments, and hair-ties,

[¶22] 23 Mirrors and fine linens, Hoods and veils.

[¶23] 24 And instead of a sweet odour there shall be rottenness, And instead of a girdle, a rent, And instead of curled locks, baldness; Instead of a belt, a girdle of sackcloth, Instead of beauty, burning.

[¶24] 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, And thy might in the battle.

[¶25] 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she, desolate, shall sit on the ground.