Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 3:16
The daughters — The women; (hitherto he reproved the men). A tinkling — By some ornaments which they wore upon their shoes.
The daughters — The women; (hitherto he reproved the men). A tinkling — By some ornaments which they wore upon their shoes.
Verse Isaiah 3:16. _AND WANTON EYES_ - "And falsely setting off their eyes with paint"] Hebrew, _falsifying_ their eyes. I take this to be the true meaning and literal rendering of the word; from שקר...
MOREOVER, THE LORD SAITH - In the previous parts of this prophecy, the prophet had rebuked the princes, magistrates, and the people generally. In the remainder of this chapter, he reproves with great...
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...
DAUGHTERS. Compare the "kine of Bashan" (Amos 4:1). THEIR. Hebrew masculine. Often used of women who act as men....
MOREOVER, THE LORD SAITH— After God had accused the rulers of the Jews of iniquity, injustice, and rapacity, in spoiling the people, he draws an argument of the same thing from the _pride_ and _luxury...
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...
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: BECAU...
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...
TINKLING] caused by silver bells on the ankles....
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...
BECAUSE THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION... — From the princes that worked evil, Isaiah turns to their wives, sisters, concubines, who were showing themselves degenerate daughters of Sarah and Rebecca. A like de...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י גָֽבְהוּ֙ בּ
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...
Moreover the LORD saith, (n) Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with (o) extended necks and (p) wanton eyes, walking and (q) mincing [as] they go, and making a (r) tinkling with their...
_Pace. Protestants, "and making a tinkling with their feet," (Haydock) by means of little rings round their legs. (Calmet) Stridore ad se juvenes vocat. (St. Jerome, ep. xlvii.) --- The daughters of S...
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...
16._Because the daughters of Zion are haughty. _Next follows another threatening against the ambition, luxury, and pride of women. On these points the Prophet has not followed an exact order, but repr...
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...
MOREOVER THE LORD SAITH, BECAUSE THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION ARE HAUGHTY,.... The wives or daughters of the rulers, princes, or elders; these were "high", affected to look high and tall, and therefore stret...
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: Ver....
_Moreover, the Lord saith_ After God had reproved the rulers of the Jews for their iniquity, injustice, and rapacity in spoiling the people, “he draws an argument of the same kind from the pride and l...
Moreover, the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched-forth necks, proudly thrown back, AND WANTON EYES, winking in feigned innocence, but with hidden invitation,...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
WANTON EYES: _ Heb._ deceiving with their eyes MINCING: Or, tripping nicely...
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 DAUGHTERS OF ZION; the women; as hitherto he reproved the men. WALK WITH STRETCHED FORTH NECKS; affecting stateliness, PSALMS 75:5, and to seem tall. WANTON EYES; or, as others, _twinkling with th...
Isaiah 3:16 LORD H3068 says H559 (H8799) Because H3282 daughters H1323 Zion H6726 haughty H1361 (H8804) walk...
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...
HAUGHTINESS Isaiah 3:16. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, … therefore the Lord will smite_. A terrible doom is here denounced against the Jewish women, not because...
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...
Ezekiel 16:49; Ezekiel 16:50; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 24:4; Isaiah 32:9;...