Isaiah 3:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Instead of sweet smell, those perfumes mentioned Isaiah 3:20, there shall be stink, from their scabs, mentioned Isaiah 3:17, or from other ill usages of their enemies. Instead of a girdle, which were fine and costly, and useful to gird their garments about them, a rent; either the rending of their garments for grief; or torn and tattered garments, not sufficient to cover their bodies. Burning, by the heat of the sun, to which they are now commonly exposed, from which they used formerly to guard themselves with great care.

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.