John Trapp Complete Commentary
Isaiah 3:23
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Ver. 23. See Trapp on " Isa 3:19 "
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Ver. 23. See Trapp on " Isa 3:19 "
Verse Isaiah 3:23. _THE GLASSES_] The conjunction ו _vau, and_ - AND _the_ _glasses_, is added here by _forty-three_ of _Kennicott's_ and _thirty-four_ of _De Rossi's_ MSS., and one of my own, ancient...
THE GLASSES - There is a great variety of opinion about the expression used here. That ancient Jews had “looking-glasses,” or mirrors, is manifest from the account in Exodus 38:8. These “mirrors” were...
CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...
ISAIAH 3:16 TO ISAIAH 4:1. THE LUXURIOUS LADIES OF JERUSALEM AND THEIR DOOM. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made possible through the oppression of the poor (Amos 4:1), so Isa...
GLASSES. mirrors (of polished metal). FINE LINEN. underclothing. HOODS. turbans. VAILS. long flowing vails....
IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY, &C.— In that day will the Lord take from them the ornaments, of the feet-rings, and the net-works, and the crescents; the pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin...
b. THE WOMEN TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1 16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, a...
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. GLASSES - mirrors of polished metal (Exodus 38:8). HOODS ( hatsªniypowt (H6797), from tsaanap (H6801), to wrap round) - mitres, o...
3:23 mirrors, (e-2) Or 'thin transparent garments.'...
1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...
GLASSES] RV 'hand mirrors.' HOODS] RV 'turbans.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 3 DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
At that time, enemies will attack and destroy *Jerusalem. God’s judgement will show itself in all that the people suffer. • ‘Women’ is more accurately ‘daughters’ and so probably means all the inhabi...
THE GLASSES — _i.e.,_ the polished metal _mirrors_ (as in Exodus 38:3; Job 37:18; 1 Corinthians 13:12; James 1:23), which the Eastern lad
וְ הַ גִּלְיֹנִים֙ וְ הַ סְּדִינִ֔ים וְ
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
VANITY AND SELFISH LUXURY CONDEMNED Isaiah 3:13-26; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. T...
The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the (s) veils. (s) In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel...
What a sad portrait is here drawn by the prophet, of the daughters of Zion. Alas! how unsuitable to Zion's daughters, who are supposed to be women professing godliness. Reader! is not the present day...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...
THE GLASSES,.... Looking glasses, by which they dressed themselves, see Exodus 38:8 and so Kimchi explains the word; but elsewhere e he says it signifies thin garments, so called because the flesh is...
_The embroidered robes, and the tunics, and the cloaks, and the little purses, Isaiah 3:22_. _The transparent garments_ A kind of silken dress, transparent like gauze; worn only by the most delicate w...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
the glasses, small metal mirrors, AND THE FINE LINEN, shirtlike garments of the finest India linen, AND THE HOODS, colored turbans, AND THE VEILS, mufflerlike throws for the neck, a total of twenty-on...
16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments...
THE GLASSES; the looking-glasses, as we call them, though in truth they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass....
Isaiah 3:23 mirrors H1549 linen H5466 turbans H6797 robes H7289 glasses - Exodus 38:8 fine linen -...
BECAUSE OF THEIR VANITY, AND THE BEHAVIOUR THAT IT RESULTS IN THE WOMEN WILL LOSE THEIR TREASURED POSSESSIONS (ISAIAH 3:16). Isaiah 3:16 ‘Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are ha...
CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the judgment of sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own procuring. Those who...
Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...
_The daughters of Zion are haughty_ WANTON EYES (“twinkling with the eyes”):--Compare the Talmudic witticism, “God did not create the woman out of Adam’s ear, lest she might become an eavesdropper;...
FEMALE PRIDE AND LUXURY Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 4:1. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, &c._ We have here a terrible denunciation of female pride and luxury. Consider— I...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...
For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
1 Chronicles 15:27; Exodus 38:8; Ezekiel 16:10; Genesis 24:65;...
Glasses — The looking — glasses, as we call them, tho' in truth they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass....