They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Ver. 18. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth.] They shall be a miserable mourning people for a long while.
Horror shall cover them.] Such heartquake as is in earthquakes - horripilatio.
Shame shall be upon all faces.] Pudor a rebus putidis, a - Ashamed they shall be of their doings, ashamed of their disappointments.
And baldness upon all their heads.] A sign of sorrow among the Jews. The Romans (contrariwise), in times of sorrow, suffered their hair to grow, saith Plutarch; so did Mephibosheth in David's days.
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