What does Isaiah 3:26 mean?
In this passage, Isaiah has shifted from describing the terrible fate of the self-glorifying women of Judah to describing Jerusalem as a woman. He has written in the previous verse (Isaiah 3:25) that all her mighty men will fall in battle, leaving her exposed to the onslaught of the invading armies.Now Isaiah describes her gates as mourning. She will be deprived of all dignity. Nobody comes in and out of the gates any longer. At the time of the Babylonian invasion (2 Kings 24:14), nearly everyone of any substance who is not killed will be marched away into exile, leaving the city nearly vacant and destitute, a ruined city on a hill.
