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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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DAUGHTERS. Compare the "kine of Bashan" (Amos 4:1).
THEIR. Hebrew masculine. Often used of women who act as men....
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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...
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b. THE WOMEN
TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TINKLING] caused by silver bells on the ankles....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י
גָֽבְהוּ֙ בּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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,...
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THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
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WANTON EYES:
_ Heb._ deceiving with their eyes
MINCING:
Or, tripping nicely...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 16:49; Ezekiel 16:50; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 24:4; Isaiah 32:9;...
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The daughters — The women; (hitherto he reproved the men). A
tinkling — By some ornaments which they wore upon their shoes....