To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify hint.
Ibn Ezra
To appoint unto them that mourn for Zion that which the text is going to enumerate. Beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning. The mourner does not anoint with oil, as may be gathered from the story of the woman of Tekoa. (2 Sam. 14:2). כהה Weak. It is an adjective of the same root as the verb בהה (Lev. 13:6) which is rendered by some is become dark, but by me hath decreased, as it is contrasted with פׁשהֹ spread. אילי Trees. Comp. אילים oaks (1:29); the words which follow, the planting of the Lord, support this explanation.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.