No text from Poole on this verse.
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 ju...
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 possi...
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 th...
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Chains - Hebrew, hanªTiypowt ( H5188 ), from naatap ( H5197 ), to drop: pendants h...
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...
Chains] RV 'pendants,' or 'eardrops'; mentioned as Midianitish ornaments ( Judges 8:26 ).
The chains. — Better, as in Judges 8:26 , where they are also ornaments of Midianite kings, earrings. These and the “bracelets “were probably of...
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...
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...
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 ca...
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 pr...
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 o...
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Ver. 19. And the chains and the bracelets, &c. ] The particulars of all their bravery we ca...
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758....
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 ‘...
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 t...
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 th...
The daughters of Zion are haughty Wanton eyes (“twinkling with the eyes”):--Compare the Talmudic witticism, “God did not create the woman out o...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 3:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM . The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are...
The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem
the chains, the ear-pendants, and the bracelets, or chains worn on wrist or arm, and the mufflers, fluttering veils,
Exodus 35:22 ; Ezekiel 16:11 ; Genesis 24:22 ; Genesis 24:30 ; Genesis 24:53 ; Genesis 38:18 ; Genesis 38:25 ; Numbers 31:50
19 The chains,h and the bracelets, and the mufflers,