Isaiah 3:24
And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.
25Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:22May the Lord afflict thee with miser- able want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.
Esther 2:12Now when every virgin's turn came to go in to the king, after all had been done for setting them off to advantage, it was the twelfth month: so that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and for other six months they used certain perfumes and sweet spices.
Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Isaiah 4:4If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 15:3In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.
Isaiah 32:9Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:17-26
The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. ( b. c. 758.) 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 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. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round… Read the whole commentary →