SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:24
Y será que en lugar de los perfumes aromáticos vendrá hediondez; y desgarrón en lugar de cinta; y calvicie en lugar de la compostura del cabello; y en lugar de faja ceńimiento de cilicio; y quemadura en vez de hermosura.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:24
Verse 24. Instead of sweet smell "perfume."] A principal part of the delicacy of the Asiatic ladies consists in the use of baths, and of the richest oils and perfumes; an attention to which is in some degree necessary in those hot countries. Frequent mention is made of the rich ointments of the spouse in the Song of Solomon, Cant. iv. 10, xi. - "How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! How much more excellent than wine; And the odour of thine ointments than all perfumes! Thy lips drop as the honey-comb, my spouse! Honey and milk are under thy tongue: And the odour of thy garments is as the odour of Lebanon." The preparation for Esther's being introduced to King Ahasuerus was a course of bathing and perfuming for a whole year; "six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours;" Esther ii. 12. See the notes on this place. A diseased and loathsome habit of body, instead of a beautiful skin, softened and made agreeable with all that art could devise, and all that nature, so prodigal in those countries of the richest perfumes, could supply, must have been a punishment the most severe and the most mortifying to the delicacy of these haughty daughters of Sion. Burning instead of beauty "A sunburnt skin."] Gaspar Sanctius thinks the words tjt yk ki thachath an interpolation, because the Vulgate has omitted them. The clause ypy tjt yk ki thachath yophi seems to me rather to be imperfect at the end. Not to mention that yk ki, taken as a noun for adustio, burning, is without example, and very improbable. The passage ends abruptly, and seems to want a fuller conclusion.
In agreement with which opinion, of the defect of the Hebrew text in this place, the Septuagint, according to MSS. Pachom. and 1 D. ii., and Marchal., which are of the best authority, express it with the same evident marks of imperfection at the end of the sentence; thus: tauta soi anti kallwpismouThe two latter add dou. This chasm in the text, from the loss probably of three or four words, seems therefore to be of long standing.
Taking yk ki in its usual sense, as a particle, and supplying űl lech from the soi of the Septuagint, it might possibly have been originally somewhat in this form:- harm t[r űl hyht ypy tjt yk marah raath lech thihyeh yophi thachath ki "Yea, instead of beauty thou shalt have an illfavoured countenance." ypy tjt yk ki thachath yophi (q. tjy yachath,) "for beauty shall be destroyed." Syr. ttj chathath or tjn nachath. - Dr. DURELL.
"May it not be yhk cohey, 'wrinkles instead of beauty?' as from hpy yaphah is formed ypy yephi, yophi; from hrm marah, yrm meri, &c.; so from hhk cahah, to be wrinkled, yhk cohey."-Dr. JUBB. The yk ki is wanting in one MS., and has been omitted by several of the ancients.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The calamities about to come upon the land. (Is. 3:1-9) The wickednes of the people. (Is. 3:10-15) The distress of the proud, luxurious wome of Zion. (Is. 3:16-26)
Is. 3:1-9 God was about to deprive Judah of every stay and support. The city and the land were to be made desolate, because their words an works had been rebellious against the Lord; even at his holy temple. I men do not stay themselves upon God, he will soon remove all othe supports, and then they must sink. Christ is the Bread of life and the Water of life; if he be our Stay, we shall find that is a good part no to be taken away, John 6:27. Here note, 1. That the condition of sinners is exceedingly woful. 2. It is the soul that is damaged by sin 3. Whatever evil befals sinners, be sure that they bring it of themselves.
Is. 3:10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be nationa prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the righteous to trust in him, and for sinners to repent and return to him It was time for the Lord to show his might. He will call men to strict account for all the wealth and power intrusted to and abused by them. If it is sinful to disregard the necessities of the poor, ho odious and wicked a part do they act, who bring men into poverty, an then oppress them!
Is. 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 foll and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishment threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the jus punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornament they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, woul have been ridiculed then as now. Their fashions differed much from those of our times, but human nature is the same. Wasting time an money, to the neglect of piety, charity, and even of justice, displeas the Lord. Many professors at the present day, seem to think there is n 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 i represented under the idea of a desolate female seated upon the earth And when the Romans had destroyed Jerusalem, they struck a medal, of which was represented a woman sitting on the ground in a posture of grief. If sin be harboured within the walls, lamentation and mournin are near the gates __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והיה 1961 תחת 8478 בשׂם 1314 מק 4716 יהיה 1961 ותחת 8478 חגורה 2290 נקפה 5364 ותחת 8478 מעשׂה 4639 מקשׁה 4748 קרחה 7144 ותחת 8478 פתיגיל 6614 מחגרת 4228 שׂק 8242 כי 3587 תחת 8478 יפי׃ 3308
