Isaiah 3:17
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
16 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:
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
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.
Compare
- BSB
- the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- KJV
- Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
- WEB
- therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the LORD will make their scalps bald.”
- ASV
- therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
- DARBY
- therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
- BLB
- and the Lord will bring scabs [to] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and YHWH will make their foreheads bare.
- ÅB
- skal Herren gjøre Sions døtres isse skurvet, og Herren skal avdekke deres blusel.
- OTB
- vil Herren plage Sions døtres hoder med sår, og Herren vil gjøre deres panner bare."
- B1930
- skal Herren gjøre Sions døtres isse skurvet, og Herren skal avdekke deres blusel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 13:22
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Read in contextRevelation 16:2
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
Read in contextIsaiah 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Read in contextLeviticus 13:43–44
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Read in contextMicah 1:11
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
Read in contextLeviticus 13:29–30
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Read in contextEzekiel 16:36–37
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Read in contextIsaiah 47:2–3
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Read in context