Isaiah 3:16

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Summary

Moreover 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:

The daughters

Are haughty

General references

Proverbs 30:13

Bible References

The daughters

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.

Are haughty

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

General references

There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!