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Verse Isaiah 3:23. _THE GLASSES_] The conjunction ו _vau, and_ - AND
_the_ _glasses_, is added here by _forty-three_ of _Kennicott's_ and
_thirty-four_ of _De Rossi's_ MSS., and one of my own, ancient...
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THE GLASSES - There is a great variety of opinion about the expression
used here. That ancient Jews had “looking-glasses,” or mirrors, is
manifest from the account in Exodus 38:8. These “mirrors” were...
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CHAPTER 3
Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion
1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad
condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...
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ISAIAH 3:16 TO ISAIAH 4:1. THE LUXURIOUS LADIES OF JERUSALEM AND THEIR
DOOM. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made
possible through the oppression of the poor (Amos 4:1), so Isa...
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GLASSES. mirrors (of polished metal).
FINE LINEN. underclothing.
HOODS. turbans.
VAILS. long flowing vails....
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IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY, &C.— In that day will the Lord
take from them the ornaments, of the feet-rings, and the net-works,
and the crescents; the pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin...
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b. THE WOMEN
TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1
16
Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and
walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, a...
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The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
GLASSES - mirrors of polished metal (Exodus 38:8). HOODS (
hatsªniypowt (H6797), from tsaanap (H6801), to wrap round) - mitres,
o...
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3:23 mirrors, (e-2) Or 'thin transparent garments.'...
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1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the
clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then
'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...
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GLASSES] RV 'hand mirrors.' HOODS] RV 'turbans.'...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 3
DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM
V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
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At that time, enemies will attack and destroy *Jerusalem. God’s
judgement will show itself in all that the people suffer.
• ‘Women’ is more accurately ‘daughters’ and so probably
means all the inhabi...
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THE GLASSES — _i.e.,_ the polished metal _mirrors_ (as in Exodus
38:3; Job 37:18; 1 Corinthians 13:12; James 1:23), which the Eastern
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CHAPTER II
THE THREE JERUSALEMS
740-735 B.C.
Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1
AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of
Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
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VANITY AND SELFISH LUXURY CONDEMNED
Isaiah 3:13-26; Isaiah 4:1-6
This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who
arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. T...
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The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how
it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment
in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
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The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the (s) veils.
(s) In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness
and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel...
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What a sad portrait is here drawn by the prophet, of the daughters of
Zion. Alas! how unsuitable to Zion's daughters, who are supposed to be
women professing godliness. Reader! is not the present day...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4.
Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre
of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the
inv...
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THE GLASSES,.... Looking glasses, by which they dressed themselves,
see Exodus 38:8 and so Kimchi explains the word; but elsewhere e he
says it signifies thin garments, so called because the flesh is...
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The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Ver. 23. _See Trapp on "_ Isa 3:19 _"_...
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_The embroidered robes, and the tunics, and the cloaks, and the little
purses, Isaiah 3:22_. _The transparent garments_ A kind of silken
dress, transparent like gauze; worn only by the most delicate w...
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the glasses, small metal mirrors, AND THE FINE LINEN, shirtlike
garments of the finest India linen, AND THE HOODS, colored turbans,
AND THE VEILS, mufflerlike throws for the neck, a total of twenty-on...
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THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
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16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the
sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly
and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments...
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THE GLASSES; the looking-glasses, as we call them, though in truth
they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass....
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Isaiah 3:23 mirrors H1549 linen H5466 turbans H6797 robes H7289
glasses - Exodus 38:8
fine linen -...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR VANITY, AND THE BEHAVIOUR THAT IT RESULTS IN THE
WOMEN WILL LOSE THEIR TREASURED POSSESSIONS (ISAIAH 3:16).
Isaiah 3:16
‘Moreover Yahweh said,
“Because the daughters of Zion are ha...
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CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the
judgment of sinners.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own
procuring. Those who...
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Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole
stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean
invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king
Jos...
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_The daughters of Zion are haughty_
WANTON EYES
(“twinkling with the eyes”):--Compare the Talmudic witticism,
“God did not create the woman out of Adam’s ear, lest she might
become an eavesdropper;...
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FEMALE PRIDE AND LUXURY
Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 4:1. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty, &c._
We have here a terrible denunciation of female pride and luxury.
Consider—
I...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 3:1
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against
Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially
against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...
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For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from
Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
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1 Chronicles 15:27; Exodus 38:8; Ezekiel 16:10; Genesis 24:65;...
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Glasses — The looking — glasses, as we call them, tho' in truth
they were not made of glass, but of bright and burnished brass....