Isaiah 3:25

And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

In Context

24And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.

26And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:6And Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, slew in Judah in one day a hundred and twenty thousand mighty men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

Isaiah 1:20but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

Jeremiah 19:7And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.

Lamentations 2:21The child and old man 1 Have lain down in the street: 1 My virgins and my young men 1 Are gone into captivity: 1 Thou hast slain them 1 With the sword and with famine; 1 In the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, 1 Thou hast not spared. 1

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 →

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