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 left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.

If the Lord hath washed away The filth of daughters of Zion, And the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst, By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

'Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

Are haughty

Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.

Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear to my saying,

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.

General references

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.