Isaiah 3:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

sweet smell. perfume.

stink. rottenness, or stench.

rent. a rope,

well set hair. richly plaited hair.

stomacher. sash or girdle, often worked in silk and gold. Still worn in Palestine.

girding of sackcloth. girding with. rope.

burning. branding.

Isaiah 3:24

24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.