Isaiah 3:6-7 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler… Or, according to a various reading, making a very good sense, "Take into thy hand our ruinous state." Endeavour, if possible, to retrieve our affairs, now in sad disorder, prognosticating our destruction as a people: deliver, if possible, from injustice and oppression, from foreign enemies and domestic troubles; and, in the prosecution of these great and important purposes, we will act as thy dutiful subjects. (R. Macculloch.) Parallel Verses KJV: When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: |
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