Isaiah 3:4-7

3:4

youths <05288> [children.]

3:5

people <05971> [the people.]

Youths <05288> [child.]

riffraff <07034> [base.]

3:6

man <0376> [a man.]

3:7

shout <05375> [swear. Heb. lift up the hand.]

doctor <02280> [healer. Heb. binder up.]

food <03899> [neither bread.]

Princes and great men in the East, as Sir J. Chardin testifies, are obliged to have a great stock of clothes in readiness for presents on all occasions; and a great quantity of provisions for the table is equally necessary, (see 1 Ki 4:22, 23. Ne 5:17, 18.) Hence the person desired to undertake the government, alleges as an excuse that he is not able to support the dignity of his station.