Isaiah 3:17

"Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;"

Key Reflection

This verse depicts the spiritual condition of Israel's women as proud and vain, symbolized by their haughty posture and excessive adornment. Such behavior is a metaphor for the nation’s moral and religious complacency, which contrasts sharply with the humility and simplicity expected in God’s people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab -There is some diversity of rendering to this expression. The Septuagint reads it: ‘The Lord will humble the principal daughters of Zion’ - those who belong to the court, or to the families of the princes. The Chaldee, ‘The Lord will prostrate the glory of the daughters of Zion.’ The Syriac is the same. The Hebrew wordשׂפחs'ı̂phach, translated ‘will smite with a scab,’ means to “make bald,” particularly to make the hair fall off by sickness. Our translation conveys the idea essentially, that is, that God would visit them with disease that would remove the hair which they regarded as so great an ornament, and on which they so much prided themselves.

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