She girds her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.
KJV
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
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She girdeth her loins with strength,.... Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; see
Luk 17:8
; the strength of creatures being in their loins,
Job 40:16
; the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautus (r); and the sense is much the same with what follows;
and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself,
Gen 49:24
; here she plays the man, and acts the manly part,
Co1 16:13
.
(r) "Lumbos defractos velim", Stichus, Act. 2. Sc. 1. v. 37.
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