Isaiah 3:16
14 The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
18 In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- KJV
- Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
- WEB
- Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
- ASV
- Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
- DARBY
- And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;
- BLB
- And says YHWH: “Because that the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck and wanton eyes, walking and skipping [as] they go, and with their feet jingling,
- ÅB
- Og Herren sa: Fordi Sions døtre er overmodige og går med kneisende nakke og lar øynene løpe om, går og tripper og klirrer med sine fotringer,
- OTB
- Dessuten sier Herren: "Fordi Sions døtre er hovmodige og går med utstrakte nakker og forførende øyne, tripper mens de går, og klirrer med sine ankelringer,
- B1930
- Og Herren sa: Fordi Sions døtre er overmodige og går med kneisende nakke og lar øinene løpe om, går og tripper og klirrer med sine fotringer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 32:9–11
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:49–50
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
Read in contextProverbs 30:13
There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Read in contextLuke 23:28
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Read in contextIsaiah 4:4
when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:18
In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
Read in contextIsaiah 24:4
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 3:11
Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
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