Tremble, ye women that are at ease... — The words find at once a parallel and a contrast in those spoken to the daughters of Jerusalem in Luke (Luke 23:28). The call to repentance includes their stripping themselves of their costly finery, and putting on the “sackcloth” (the word is implied, though not expressed in the Hebrew), which was the outward symbol of repentance (Jonah 3:5). The words, it may be noted, are masculine, the call not being limited to the women.

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