Gird yourselves - that is, with haircloth, as is elsewhere expressed (Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 4:8; [Reference Jeremia…

Gird yourselves, and lament.— The priests are exhorted to commence preparations for a national humiliation, beginning wit…

Now the Prophet begins to exhort the people to repentance. Having represented them as grievously afflicted by the hand of God, he now adds that a r…

Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests
Prepare and be ready to raise up lamentation and mourning; or gird yourselves with sa…

All who labour only for the meat that perishes will, sooner or later, be ashamed of their labour. Those that place their happiness in the delights …