Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Ver. 17. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head.] He will not only pull off their rich pantofles off their feet, but also their lovely locks from off their heads, with scabs and scales, perhaps caused by some foul disease, as the lues venerea or plica polonica. a
And will discover their secret parts.] Not having a rag left to cover them with, while stripped of all by the enemy; they are driven away as those Egyptians were, Isa 20:4 naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt; or as the Albigenses in France at Carcassona had quarter for their lives given them by the Popish bishops and other cruciates b that persecuted them, but on this condition, that both men and wmnen should depart the town stark naked in the view of the whole army. c
a Turpe pecus mutilum, turpis sine gramine campus: Et sine fronde frutex, et sine crine caput. - Ovid.
b Formed like a cross, cross shaped; arranged in the form of a cross.
c Rivet. Jesuit. Vapul.