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Isaiah 3:16–17

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Washing Away Impurity

3:16The Lord says,

“The women39 of Zion are proud.

They walk with their heads high40

and flirt with their eyes.

They skip along41

and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.42

3:17So43 the sovereign master44 will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women45 with skin diseases,46

the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”47

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Footnotes

  1. 39 Heb “daughters” (so , , ).
  2. 40 Heb “with an outstretched neck.” They proudly hold their heads high so that others can see the jewelry around their necks.
  3. 41 Heb “walking and skipping, they walk.”
  4. 42 Heb “and with their feet they jingle.”
  5. 43 In the Hebrew text vv. 16–17 and one long sentence, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk …, the sovereign master will afflict.…” In v. 17 the Lord refers to himself in the third person.
  6. 44 The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in v. 18 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
  7. 45 Heb “the daughters of Zion.”
  8. 46 Or “a scab” (, ); , , “sores.”
  9. 47 The precise meaning of this line is unclear because of the presence of the rare word פֹּת (pot). Since the verb in the line means “lay bare, make naked,” some take פֹּת as a reference to the genitals (cf. , , , ). (In 1 Kgs 7:50 a noun פֹּת appears, with the apparent meaning “socket.”) J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [], 1:, n. 2), basing his argument on alleged Akkadian evidence and the parallelism of the verse, takes פֹּת as “forehead.”

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The Lord said:

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty

and walk with outstretched necks,

glancing wantonly with their eyes,

mincing along as they go,

tinkling with their feet,

therefore the Lord will strike with a scab

the heads of the daughters of Zion,

and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The Lord says,

“The women of Zion are haughty,

walking along with outstretched necks,

flirting with their eyes,

strutting along with swaying hips,

with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;

the Lord will make their scalps bald.”

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord also says:

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,

walking with heads held high

and seductive eyes,

prancing along,

jingling their ankle bracelets,

the Lord will put scabs on the heads

of the daughters of Zion,

and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord says, “Beautiful Zion is haughty:

craning her elegant neck,

flirting with her eyes,

walking with dainty steps,

tinkling her ankle bracelets.

So the Lord will send scabs on her head;

the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And Yahweh said: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,

and they walk with outstretched neck,

and they give flirting glances with their eyes,

mincing along as they go,

and with their feet they rattle their bangles,

the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion scabby,

and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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:

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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