“ The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. ”
The glasses - There is a great variety of opinion about the expression used here. That ancient Jews had “looking-glasses,” or mirrors, is manifest from the account in Exodus 38:8 . These “mirror...
The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the (s) veils. (s) In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely appare...
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...
glasses . mirrors (of polished metal). fine linen . underclothing. hoods . turbans. vails . long flowing vails.
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. The glasses - The conjunction ו vau, and - And the glasses, is added here by forty-three of Kennicott's and thirty-four of De Rossi's MS...
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 glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. Glasses - mirrors of polished metal ( Exodus 38:8 ). Hoods ( hatsªniypowt ( H6797 ), from tsaanap ( H6801 ), to wrap...
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 glasses — i.e., the polished metal mirrors (as in Exodus 38:3 ; Job 37:18 ; 1 Corinthians 13:12 ; James 1:23 ), which the Eastern lady carried in her hand, that she might adjust her toi...
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 glasses ,.... Looking glasses, by which they dressed themselves, see Exodus 38:8 and so Kimchi explains the word; but elsewhere e he says it signifies thin garments, so called because the fles...
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. Ver. 23. See Trapp on " Isa 3:19 "
The embroidered robes, and the tunics, and the cloaks, and the little purses, Isaiah 3:22 . The transparent garments A kind of silken dress, transparent like gauze; worn only by the most delicat...
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758. 16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...
The glasses; the looking-glasses, as we call them, though in truth they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass.
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 Chronicles 15:27 ; Exodus 38:8 ; Ezekiel 16:10 ; Genesis 24:65 ; Genesis 41:42 ; Luke 16:19 ; Revelation 19:14 ; Revelation 19:8 ; Ruth 3:15 ; Song of Solomon 5:7
Glasses — The looking — glasses, as we call them, tho' in truth they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass.