Isaiah 3:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discoverf their secret parts. ”

• Isaiah 3:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab - There is some diversity of rendering to this expression. The Septuagint reads it: ‘The Lord will humble the principal daughters of Zion’ - those who be...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the LORD* . One of the 134 places where, in the primitive text, the Sopherim say they changed Jehovah to Adonai. secret parts . or, nakedness.

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. Therefore will the Lord make bald (67) the crown of the head Here the particle ו, (vau,) which signifies and, is put for therefore; for he threatens that, since neither gentle a...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. The Lord will smite "Will the Lord humble" - ταπεινωσει, Septu...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Therefore the Lord will smite— Punishment, which, though slow, always follows vice, is here denounced upon the luxurious and proud women: First, A taking away not only of the ornaments with whi...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab - Hebrew,...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The Lord will smite with a scab ... — The words point partly to diseases, such as leprosy, causing baldness, engendered by misery and captivity, partly to the brutal outrage of the Assyrian invaders...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another port...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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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• Isaiah 3:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion ,.... This is opposed to the lifting up of their heads in that haughty manner they did, and to the binding, a...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. Ver. 17. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crow...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore the Lord will smite , &c. Will humble the head of the daughters of Zion; and Jehovah will expose their nakedness. Thus Bishop Lowth renders the verse, observing, that “it was the bar...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758.       16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Will smite with a scab the crown of the head; will by sending scabs, or by other ways, take off the hair of their head, which is a woman's glory, 1 Corinthians 11:15 , and which doubtless minist...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Because Of Their Vanity, And The Behaviour That It Results In the Women Will Lose Their Treasured Possessions ( Isaiah 3:16-24 ). Isaiah 3:16 ‘Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Z...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  HAUGHTINESS Isaiah 3:16-17 . 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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 eavesdroppe...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 3:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM . The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:27 ; Ezekiel 16:36 ; Ezekiel 16:37 ; Ezekiel 23:25-29 ; Isaiah 20:4 ; Isaiah 47:2 ; Isaiah 47:3 ; Jeremiah 13:22 ; Leviticus 13:29 ; Leviticus 13:30 ; Leviticus 13:43 ; Lev...

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• Isaiah 3:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Secret paths — By giving her into the power of those enemies that shall strip her of all her raiment.

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