John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 3:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbour, &c.] There being no governors, or such as were unfit for government, no decorum was kept and observed, but a mere anarchy; and so everyone did as he pleased, as when there was no king in Israel; and everyone rushed into the house of his neighbour, and plundered his goods; this was the case of Jerusalem, at the time of the siege, it abounding with robbers and spoilers: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient; show no respect to them, nor honour them, as the law requires in (<031932>Leviticus 19:32) but behave insolently towards them; and so the Jews sayf52, that when the son of David is come, as he now would be, young men shall make ashamed the faces of old men, and old men shall stand before young men: and the base against the honourable; persons of a mean birth and extract would rise up against and insult such as were men of families and fortune, of noble birth and of high degree.

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