Verse Isaiah 3:24. _INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL_ - "perfume."] A principal part of the delicacy of the Asiatic ladies consists in the use of baths, and of the richest oils and perfumes; an attention to wh...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS - The prophet proceeds to denounce the “judgment” or “punishment” that would come upon them for their pride and vanity. In the calamities that would befall the nation, all th...
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...
SWEET SMELL. perfume. STINK. rottenness, or stench. RENT. a rope, WELL SET HAIR. richly plaited hair. STOMACHER. sash or girdle, often worked in silk and gold. Still worn in Palestine. GIRDING OF...
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...
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;...
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...
INSTEAD OF, etc.] RV 'instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness.' RENT] RV 'rope,' i.e. binding the captive. BURNING] RV 'branding.' i.e. of a slave....
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS. — Now comes the terrible contrast of the day of destruction that is coming on all this refined luxury. Instead of the balmy perfume of the scent-bottles, there shall be the...
וְ הָיָה֩ תַ֨חַת בֹּ֜שֶׂם מַ֣ק יִֽהְיֶ֗ה 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...
_Stench. The Jews are noted on this account, as if in consequence of this curse, or of their being confined to prisons, &c. F\'9ctentium Judæorum et tumultuantium sæpe tædio percitus. --- M. Aurelius...
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...
24._Instead of a sweet smell there shall be stink. _It is evident that the country here described abounds in aromatic herbs; and there is no reason to doubt that in pleasant smells, as well as in othe...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL THERE SHALL BE A STINK,.... Instead of "spice", or in the place where they put spices, carried musk, or had their smelling bottles, of precious...
And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;...
_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...
And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell, the delicate perfume of balsam, there shall be stink AND INSTEAD OF A GIRDLE A RENT, nothing but a rope to hold the garments together, AND INSTEA...
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...
INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL, those perfumes mentioned ISAIAH 3:20, THERE SHALL BE STINK, from their scabs, mentioned ISAIAH 3:17, or from other ill usages of their enemies. INSTEAD OF A GIRDLE, which were...
Isaiah 3:24 smell H1314 stench H4716 sash H2290 rope H5364 well-set H4639 hair H4748 baldness H7144 robe...
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...
Amos 8:10; Deuteronomy 28:22; Deuteronomy 32:24; Ezekiel 27:31;...
Girdle — Which were fine and costly, and useful to gird their garments about them. A rent — Torn and tattered garments. Burning — By the heat of the sun, to which they are now commonly exposed, from w...