Isaiah 3:18

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 Isaiah 3:16.) CAULS - Hebrew, shebisim, net-work for the head. Or else, from an Arabic root, little suns, answering to the TIRES, or neck-ornaments (Hebrew, sahªroniym (H7720)). LIKE THE MOON - (Judges 8:21, margin) The crescent is still worn in front of the head dress in western Asia....

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 threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the just punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornaments they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, would have been ridiculed then as now. Their fashions differed much from those of our times, but human nature is the same. Wasting time and money, to the neglect of piety, charity, and even of justice, displease the Lord. Many professors at the present day, seem to think there is no harm in worldly finery; but were it not a great evil, would the Holy Spirit have taught the prophet to expose it so fully? The Jews being overcome, Jerusalem would be levelled with the ground; which is represente...

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 the word עכס both verb and noun, in his very ingenious Dissertation on Proverbs 7:22-20. The verb means to _skip_, to _bound_, to _dance along_; and the noun, those _ornaments_ of the _feet_ which the Eastern ladies wore; _chains_ or _rings_, which made a tinkling sound as they moved nimbly in walking. _Eugene Roger_, Description de la Terre Sainte, Liv. ii. ch. 2, speaking of the Arabian women, of the first rank in Palestine, says, - "Au lieu de brasselets elles ont de menottes d'argent, qu'elles portent aux poignets et aux pieds; ou sont attachez qu...

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 shall choose to employ in this work. - The prophet proceeds to specify the various ornaments that composed the female apparel in his time. It is not easy to describe them particularly, nor is it necessary. The “general” meaning of the passage is plain: and it is clear from this, that they greatly abounded in ornaments. THE BRAVERY - This word “we” apply to valor or courage. The word here used, however, meaus “ornament, adorning,” or “glory.” OF THEIR TINKLING ORNAMENTS - This is the same word which is used in Isaiah 3:16, and refers to the

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 her superior and more honorable classes (Isaiah 3:1); and will give her "children" for her rulers (Isaiah 3:4). There will be continued oppression, and the rise of an insolent and undutiful spirit (Isaiah 3:5). Those fit to bear rule will refuse to do so (Isaiah 3:6,...

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 noise; or seeing the word used signifies "stocks", and is so rendered Proverbs 7:22, it may design some sort of attire about the feet, as golden chains, as the Talmudists say t, which being fastened to both, directed their motion in walking, and prevented them taking too large steps: or rather these may intend some ornaments of the feet, used by the eastern nations; which, according to Golius, as related by De Dieu on the place, were plates of gold, one or two fingers broad, and sometimes four, which were put about the ankles of infants of rich families; not to make a tinkling, nor to direct their walk, but for ornam

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 worldliness of the daughters of Zion (Isaiah 3:16)_ 5. _Their humiliation in judgment (Isaiah 3:24; Isaiah 4:1)_ This chapter describes the corrupt conditions among the professing people of God in Isaiah's day. A similar corruption and worldliness pr

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 Isaiah assails the luxury and haughtiness of the women. These West-end ladies, disdainful and affected, walking with short mincing steps, ogling the men with wanton glances, tinkling with their step-chains and making a clanging sound as they struck their ankle-rings together, will be smitten with leprous scab in their scalps, and be stripped bare of their finery. They will then offer a hideous contrast to their present magnificence for perfume the stench of scabs, the rope of captivity for the girdle, baldness of mourning ...

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 veils; the tires, and the setters, and the zones, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; the rings, and the jewels of the nostril; the embroidered robes, and the tunics; and the cloaks, and the little purses; the transparent garments, and the fine linen vests; and the turbans, and the mantles: and there shall be, instead of perfume, a putrid ulcer; and, instead of well-girt raiment, rags; and, instead of a zone, a girdle of sackcloth: a sun-burnt skin, instead of beauty._ Lowth. Instead of _a rent,_ Isaiah 3:24, the LXX read _a rope._ All this intimates, that they should be reduced, from the most exalted and opulent, to the most abject and servile state. They who would see the