Verse Isaiah 3:20. The tablets] The words בתי הנפש bottey hannephesh, which we translate tablets, and Bishop Lowth, perfume boxes, literally signify houses of the soul; and may refer to strong-scented bottles used for pleasure and against fainting; similar to bottles with otto of roses, worn by the ladies of the East to the present time.
THE BONNETS - The “tiara, head-dress, or turban.” The word comes from the verb “to adorn.” The “turban” is almost universally worn in the East. It was worn by the priests, Exodus 39:28; by the bridegr...
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...
BONNETS. headdress. Hebrew. _pe'er._ Not therefore peculiar to the "latter" portion of Isaiah (Isaiah 61:10) as alleged. ORNAMENTS. anklets. HEADBANDS. girdles. Compare Isaiah 49:18. TABLETS. scent...
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 bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, BONNETS - tiaras, or turbans. ORNAMENTS OF THE LEGS - the short stepping chains from one foot to...
3:20 head-dresses, (d-2) Or 'diadems.'...
BONNETS] RV 'headtires.' The same word is used of a bridegroom's headdress (Isaiah 61:10). ORNAMENTS OF THE LEGS] RV 'ankle-chains.' HEADBANDS] RV 'sashes,' such as were worn by brides (Isaiah 49:18;...
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...
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 BONNETS... — The English word is perhaps, too modern in its associations, and should be replaced by “diadems” (Exodus 39:28; Isaiah 61:10). THE ORNAMENTS OF THE LEGS. — These were chains connectin...
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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...
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...
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 BONNETS,.... This word is used sometimes for the tire of the heads of men, Ezekiel 24:17 and even for the bonnets of the priests, Exodus 39:28. The Targum renders the word "crowns"; the Jewish wom...
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, Ver. 20. _See Trapp on "_ Isa 3:19 _"_...
the bonnets, turban-shaped diadems, AND THE ORNAMENTS OF THE LEGS, the step-chains connecting the ankle-bracelets, AND THE HEAD-BANDS, beautiful girdles, AND THE TABLETS, perfume capsules, the favorit...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
TABLETS: _ Heb._ houses of the soul...
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 BONNETS: these were ornaments to cover the head, common both to men, as EXODUS 39:28, and to women, as here. THE TABLETS, Heb. _the houses of the soul, or of life, or of breath_; whereby he seems...
Isaiah 3:20 headdresses H6287 ornaments H6807 headbands H7196 perfume H5315 boxes H1004 charms H3908 the earrings - Lechashim probably amulets....
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...
Exodus 32:2; Ezekiel 16:12; Genesis 35:4; Hosea 2:13...
Tablets — He seems to mean boxes of perfumes....