“ The rings, and nose jewels, ”
The rings - Usually worn on the fingers. And nose-jewels - The custom of wearing jewels in the “nose” has generally prevailed in savage tribes, and was common, and is still, in Eastern nation...
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...
nose jewels. Worn in Palestine to-day.
The rings, and nose jewels, Nose-jewels "The jewels of the nostril" - נזמי האף nizmey haaph. Schroederus explains this, as many others do, of jewels, or strings of pearl hanging from the forehead, an...
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 rings, and nose jewels, Nose jewels. The cartilage between the nostrils was bored to receive them: they usually hung from the left nostril.
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 rings, and nose jewels. — The first word points to the signet ring, worn both by men and women of wealth ( Exodus 35:22 ; Numbers 31:50 ; Esther 3:12 ; Esther 8:8 ; Jeremiah 22:24 ); the la...
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 rings ,.... On their finger, as Aben Ezra observes: and nose jewels ; the same with the jewels on the forehead or nose, Ezekiel 16:12 not that they hung upon the nose, but were fastened upo...
The rings, and nose jewels, Ver. 21. See Trapp on " Isa 3:19 "
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758. 16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...
Which were fastened to the head, and hung down upon the forehead to the beginning of the nose; of which see Genesis 24:22,47 Jud 8:24 , &c.
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
1 Peter 3:3 ; 1 Peter 3:4 ; 1 Timothy 2:10 ; 1 Timothy 2:9 ; Esther 8:12 ; Genesis 24:47 ; Genesis 41:42 ; James 2:2 ; Luke 15:22 ; Song of Solomon 5:14
Nose — jewels — Which were fastened to the head, and hung down upon the forehead to the beginning of the nose.