Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin (continued)
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Isaiah Chapter 3:1-26 1. 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,
1. Quoniam ecce Dominator Iehova exercituum, Ierosolymae et Judae vigorem et vim adimet, omnem vigorem panis, omnem vigorem aquae,
2. The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
2. Fortem, et virum bellicosum, judicem et prophetam, et divinum et senem,
3. The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3. Ducem quinquagenarium, et conspicuum, senatorem, eximium quemque inter artifices et disertum, (vel, intelligentem arcani sermonis.)
4. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
4. Et constituam pueros illis principes, et parvuli dominabuntur eis. 5. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
5. Violenter aget populus qisque in alium, vir in proximum suum; insolescet adolescens contra senem, contemptus adversus honoratum.
6. 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:
6. Cum apprehenderit quisque fratrem suum e familia patris sui, Vesti-