And grinding the faces of the poor?”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk with1 outstretched necks
And1 wanton eyes,
Walking and1 mincing as they go,
Making a jingling with their feet,
The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
And the Lord will buncover their secret parts.”
The jingling anklets, the1 scarves, and the acrescents;
The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.
Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
Instead of a sash, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, abaldness;
Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.
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Isaiah 3:17
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab - There is some diversity of rendering to this expression. The Septuagint reads it: ' The Lord will humble the principal daughters of Zion' - those who belong to the court, or to the families of the princes. The Chaldee, ' The Lord will prostrate the glory of the daughters of Zion.' The Syriac is the same. The Hebrew word ׂ s'ı̂phach , translated ' will smite with a scab,' means to "make bald," particularly to make the hair fall off by sickness. Our translation conveys the idea essentially, that is, that God would visit them with disease that would remove the hair which they regarded as so great an ornament, and on which they so much prided themselves. Few things would be so degrading and humiliating as being thus made bald. The description in this verse means, that God would humble and punish them; that they who so adorned themselves, and who were so proud of their ornaments, would be divested of their joyful attire, and be borne naked into captivity in a foreign land.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 3:17:
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