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, sipach (H5596); cf. Isaiah 5:7, margin; Leviticus 13:2; Leviticus 13:6. Others take it, make bald-namely, by disease, or else by the enemy shaving off the hair, as is done to slaves. The Septuagint, Arabic, Vulgate, Syriac, and Chaldaic translate by terms meaning to humble. To deprive a woman of her hair is to take away "her glory given her for a covering" (1 Corinthians 11:15).
The Lord will discover their secret parts. He will cause them to suffer the greatest indignity that can befall female captives-namely, to be stripped naked, and have their persons exposed (Isaiah 47:3: cf. with Isaiah 20:4).