“ The chains,h and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ”
The chains - Margin, “sweet balls.” The word used here is derived from the verb נטף nâṭaph , to drop, to fall in drops, or to distil,” as juice from a plant. Hence, it means that which “rese...
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...
chains . pendants. mufflers . light face-veils.
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
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 chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Chains - Hebrew, hanªTiypowt ( H5188 ), from naatap ( H5197 ), to drop: pendants hanging about the neck and dropping on the breast....
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...
The chains. — Better, as in Judges 8:26 , where they are also ornaments of Midianite kings, earrings. These and the “bracelets “were probably of gold. The “mufflers” were the long flowing veil,...
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...
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...
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...
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 chains ,.... According to Kimchi and R. Levi ben Gersom on Judges 8:26 these were drop bottles, or vessels of gold, in which were put stacte or balsam; and the former says here, they were such...
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Ver. 19. And the chains and the bracelets, &c. ] The particulars of all their bravery we can say little unto upon certainty, since we are at...
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758. 16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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. C...
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...
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...
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...
The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem
Exodus 35:22 ; Ezekiel 16:11 ; Genesis 24:22 ; Genesis 24:30 ; Genesis 24:53 ; Genesis 38:18 ; Genesis 38:25 ; Numbers 31:50