For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
For - continuation of Isaiah 2:22.
Behold, the Lord ( haa-'Adown (H113 )), the Lord ( Yahweh (H3068 )) of hosts - therefore able to do as He says.
Doth - present for future, so certain is the accomplishment.
Take away from Jerusalem ... the stay and the staff ( mash`een (H4937), mash`eenaah (H4938)) - the same Hebrew word, the one masculine, the other feminine, an Arabic idiom for all kinds of support. What a change from the previous luxuries! (Isaiah 2:7.) Fulfilled in the siege by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterward by Titus (Jeremiah 37:21; Jeremiah 38:9).