Isaiah 3:24
Instead of sweet perfume there will be stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; 1 instead of well-arranged hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a covering of sackcloth; 1 and branding instead of beauty. 1
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23the hand mirrors, the fine linen, the head pieces, and the wraps. 1
25Your men will fall by the sword, and your strong men will fall in war. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:22Yahweh will attack you with infectious diseases, with fever, with inflammation, and with drought and blistering heat, and with scorching winds and mildew. These will pursue you until you perish.
Esther 2:12When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus—complying with the regulations for the women, each girl had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments, six months with oil of myrrh, and six with perfumes and cosmetics—
Proverbs 7:17I have sprinkled my bed 1 with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 1
Isaiah 4:4This will happen when the Lord will have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, 1 and will have cleansed the blood stains from Jerusalem's midst, 1 by means of the spirit of judgment and the spirit of flaming fire. 1
Isaiah 15:3In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their housetops 1 and in the square everyone wails, melting in tears. 1
Isaiah 32:9Rise up, you women who are at ease, and listen to my voice; 1 you carefree daughters, listen to me. 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 →