Isaiah 3:24
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
23and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.
25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Esther 2:12In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
Isaiah 4:4when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah 15:3In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
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 →