Isaiah 3:25
Thy males, by the sword shall fall,—And, thy mighty men, by the war;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
In Context
26And her gates shall mourn and lament,—And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:6And Pekah son of Remaliah slew, in Judah, a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all, sons of valour,-because they had forsaken Yahweh, God of their fathers.
Isaiah 1:20But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.
Jeremiah 14:18If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land unnoticed.
Jeremiah 19:7And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life,—
Lamentations 2:21Youth and elder, have lain down on the ground in the streets, My virgins and my young men, have fallen by the sword,—Thou hast slain, in the day of thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered, hast not spared!
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 →