And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, &c. The calamity shall be universal, without any respect or distinction of persons or ranks of men; the priests themselves, having been partakers of the people's sins, shall also partake with them of their plagues. As with the buyer, so with the seller The purchaser of lands shall have no more left than he that hath sold his patrimony; but all persons shall be made equal in beggary and slavery. The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled Shall be deprived both of its riches and inhabitants. “As the public calamities coming upon the land were to be repeated, at various times and in various manners,” the sacred writer is thought by some interpreters to have “accommodated his discourse to these calamities, and divided it into various articles and gradations.” See Vitringa.
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Isaiah 24:2-3
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;b as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.