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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord will smite with a scab... — The words point partly to diseases, such as leprosy, causing baldness, engendered by misery and captivity, partly to the brutal outrage of the Assyrian invaders, stripping off the costly garments and leaving the wearers to their nakedness. (Comp. Ezekiel 16:37; Nahum 3:5.)

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See also Isaiah 3:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 3:17. _THE LORD WILL SMITE_ - "Will the Lord humble"] ταπεινωσει, _Septuagint_; and so _Syriac_ and _Chaldee_. For שפח _sippach_ they read שפל _shaphal_. Instead of יהוה _Yehovah_, many M...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where, in the primitive text, the _Sopherim say_ they changed Jehovah to _Adonai._ SECRET PARTS. or, nakedness....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE THE LORD WILL SMITE— Punishment, which, though slow, always follows vice, is here denounced upon the luxurious and proud women: First, A _taking away_ not only of the _ornaments_ with which...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. THEREFORE THE LORD WILL SMITE WITH A SCAB - Hebrew, sipach ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שִׂפַּ֣ח אֲדֹנָ֔י קָדְקֹ֖ד בְּנֹ֣ות צִיֹּ֑ון...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bald. Like slaves, Deuteronomy xxi. 12. --- Hair. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shame."_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._Therefore will the Lord make bald _(67) _the crown of the head _Here the particle ו, (vau,) which signifies _and_, is put for _therefore_; for he threatens that, since neither gentle advices nor a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 17. _Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore the Lord will smite_, &c. _Will humble the head of the daughters of Zion; and Jehovah will expose their nakedness._ Thus Bishop Lowth renders the verse, observing, that “it was the barbarou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, where long hair now is decorated handsomely, will be found nothing but loathsome uncleanness, AND THE LORD WIL...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DISCOVER: _ Heb._ make naked...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WILL SMITE WITH A SCAB THE CROWN OF THE HEAD; will by sending scabs, or by other ways, take off the hair of their head, which is a woman's glory, 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15, and which doubtless ministered to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:17 Lord H136 scab H5596 (H8765) head H6936 daughters H1323 Zion H6726 LORD H3068 uncover H6168 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    HAUGHTINESS Isaiah 3:16. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, … therefore the Lord will smite_. A terrible doom is here denounced against the Jewish women, not because...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:27; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Secret paths — By giving her into the power of those enemies that shall strip her of all her raiment....

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