Isaiah 3:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Moreover 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:

Isaiah 3:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 32:9-11
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. …
Ezekiel 16:49-50
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. …
Isaiah 4:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Matthew 21:5
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Dowry Haughtiness Heart Mincing Presumption

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-26)

The prophet’s business was to show all sorts of people what they had contributed to the national guilt and what share they must expect in the national judgments that were coming. Here he reproves and warns the daughters of Zion, tells the ladies of their faults; and Moses, in the law, having denounced God’s wrath against the tender and delicate woman (the prophets being a comment upon the law, Deu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, &c.--Luxury had become great in Uzziah’s prosperous reign (2Ch 26:5). stretched forth--proudly elevated (Psa 75:5). wanton--rather, “making the eyes to glance about,” namely, wantonly (Pr 6:13) [Maurer]. But Lowth, “falsely setting off the eyes with paint.” Women’s eyelids in the East are often colored with stibium, or powder of lead (see on Job 42:14…