Cauls — It is agreed by all, that this and several words that follow, were ornaments used in those times. And it is of no concern, exactly to understand the nature and differences of them. The moon — There were in ancient times, and at this day there are some ornaments worn, which carry a manifest resemblance to the moon or half moon.
Verse Isaiah 3:18. _ORNAMENTS_ ABOUT THEIR FEET - "The ornaments of the feet rings"] The late learned Dr. _Hunt_, professor of Hebrew and Arabic in the University of Oxford, has very well explained t...
IN THAT DAY - That is, in the time when he would inflict this exemplary punishment on them - probably the calamitous times of the Babylonian captivity. THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY - By the agents that he...
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...
BRAVERY. finery. ORNAMENTS. metal crescent-shaped discs. CAULS. caps. Old French " _cale_ ". THEIR ROUND TIRES LIKE THE MOON. round crescent-shaped headbands....
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...
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, THE BRAVERY - the finery. TINKLING - (see Isai...
3:18 crescents, (c-18) Or 'the networks, and the little moons.'...
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...
CAULS] RM 'networks.' ROUND TIRES LIKE THE MOON] RV 'crescents'; mentioned as Midianitish ornaments (Judges 8:21; Judges 8:26)....
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...
TINKLING ORNAMENTS. — These were anklets, _i.e.,_ rings of metal, with or without bells, which produced the tinkling of Isaiah 3:16. The “cauls” were probably _wreaths,_ or plaits of gold or silver ne...
בַּ † יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֜וּא יָסִ֣יר אֲדֹנָ֗י...
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...
_Of shoes. Hebrew, "gold tissue," Psalm xliv. 14. This term occurs no where else, and many of these superfluous ornaments are not well known. But we may conclude that they are pernicious to a state, a...
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...
IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY THE BRAVERY OF [THEIR] TINKLING ORNAMENTS [ABOUT THEIR FEET],.... With which they made a tinkling as they went, Isaiah 3:16 it being about the shoe, and made a nois...
_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,_ Ver. 18. _The Lord will take away the bra...
_In that day the Lord_, &c. “Punishment, which, though slow, always follows vice, is here denounced upon the luxurious and proud women: first, _taking away_, not only the _ornaments_, wherewith they s...
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery, the adornment, OF THEIR TINKLING ORNAMENTS ABOUT THEIR FEET, the ankle-rings with their chains, AND THEIR CAULS, braided ornaments fastened to the fore...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
CAULS: Or, networks...
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...
CAULS: as for this and the other Hebrew words here following, I judge it unnecessary and improper to trouble the English reader with the differing interpretations given of them by learned men, which t...
Isaiah 3:18 day H3117 Lord H136 away H5493 (H8686) finery H8597 anklets H5914 scarves H7636 crescents H7720...
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...
Isaiah 3:16; Judges 8:21...