They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Israel and Judah appear as Samaria and Jerusalem, adulterous and lewd women who turned from God to pursue foreign powers, and the chapter lays bare their fearful sins and spiritual unfaithfulness in stark terms. That adultery and lewdness denote spiritual apostasy, a turning from God's law and worship to idolatrous and false religious systems, with a corrupt woman standing for a corrupt church, the verse functioning as part of that larger portrayal rather than as an isolated statement. To be stripped of clothing and deprived of fair jewels is to be brought to humiliation and loss under judgment.
The stripping belongs to Babylon's attack on Jerusalem and the removal of Israel's royal dignity, part of the scattering for disobedience to God's commandments that began with the Babylonian destruction and continued through the Roman destruction. Transgression of the fourth commandment is sin, and the verse helps show that the Sabbath commandment remains part of God's law rather than belonging to a system of types and shadows. The warning reaches churches that forsake God by seeking help and union from civil power, for God demands full loyalty and will not share His glory.
Israel and Judah appear as Samaria and Jerusalem, adulterous and lewd women who turned from God to pursue foreign powers, and the chapter lays bare their fearful sins and spiritual unfaithfulness in stark terms. That adultery and lewdness denote spiritual apostasy, a turning from God's law and worship to idolatrous and false religious systems, with a corrupt woman standing for a corrupt church, the verse functioning as part of that larger portrayal rather than as an isolated statement. To be stripped of clothing and deprived of fair jewels is to be brought to humiliation and loss under judgment.
The stripping belongs to Babylon's attack on Jerusalem and the removal of Israel's royal dignity, part of the scattering for disobedience to God's commandments that began with the Babylonian destruction and continued through the Roman destruction. Transgression of the fourth commandment is sin, and the verse helps show that the Sabbath commandment remains part of God's law rather than belonging to a system of types and shadows. The warning reaches churches that forsake God by seeking help and union from civil power, for God demands full loyalty and will not share His glory.