Verse 16 reads like a description of our celebrity culture with its obsession with looks and fashion. Such women would be brought low. The superficiality of it all would be exposed by catastrophe. All their beauty, jewellery and perfumes would be taken away, along with all the accessories.
Instead they would wear the garments of disaster. All the things mentioned in verse 24 are associated with being taken captive. And the men they fawned over would be killed by the sword.
In those circumstances any man would do!
We need to be careful not to be taken in by the culture of our times. The world's culture favours those who are "in", but despises those who are "out". It is marked by exploitation, dehumanisation and superficiality.
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