Isaiah 3:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 3:17

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

BSB

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ASV

therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 17) On that day the Lord will take away the ornament of the shoes. On which day? The Jews believe it to be the captivity of Babylon. We are more convinced that it is when they were captured by the Romans and lost all their clothing, gems, gold, jewelry, and various furnishings. Or, by the metaphor of women, it is said that all the adornment of cities was destroyed. Understand the ornaments of cities in the streets and porticoes, in the marketplace and gymnasiums, and in public walls.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,.... This is opposed to the lifting up of their heads in that haughty manner they did, and to the binding, and plaiting, and curling of their hair, which now will fall off, through the scab or leprosy upon them, or must be obliged to be shaven off. And the Lord will discover their secret parts; the Vulgate Latin renders it, "their hair", which is their glory, 1Co 11:6. The Targum is, "and the Lord shall take away their glory".

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 word שׂפח s'ı̂phach, translated ‘will smite with a scab,’ means to “make bald,” particularly to make the hair fall off by sickness.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשִׂפַּ֣ח	ve.si.Pach	and he will make scabby	H5596 →
אֲדֹנָ֔י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
קָדְקֹ֖ד	ka.de.Kod	scalp of	H6936 →
בְּנ֣וֹת	be.Not	[the] daughters of	H1323 →
צִיּ֑וֹן	tzi.Yon	Zion	H6726 →
וַיהוָ֖ה	va.Yah.weh	and Yahweh	H3068 →
פָּתְהֵ֥ן	pa.te.Hen	forehead their	H6596 →
יְעָרֶֽה׃ ס	ye.'a.Reh	he will lay bare	H6168 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 13:22
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
leads to
- Nahum 3:5
  “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 16:10–11
  When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have…
- Jeremiah 5:19
  And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods…
- Deuteronomy 7:17
  You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
- Hosea 2:10
  And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Through
Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
leads to
- Jeremiah 13:22
  And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 19:4
  I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of harsh masters, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 13:26
  So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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About Isaiah