Isaiah 3:16 ¶
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: 17 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. 18 In that day the Lord
will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their
feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and
the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the
ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the
mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the
hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall
come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and
instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead
of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and
thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates
shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the
ground.
The women of Jerusalem and Judah are accused
of being haughty, arrogant and pretentious.
Note what Peter said about women adorning
themselves with ornaments and jewelry and trendy hairstyles.
1Peter 3:1 ¶
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any
obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of
the wives; 2 While they behold your
chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair,
and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in
that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of great price.
I considered detailing each of these various
items of adornment for the upper-class women of Jerusalem and comparing them to
Roman and Greek customs and items but thought that would just interfere with
the point God is making through Isaiah. The point is that for all of the grand
display these women put on to show the world it will mean nothing in the
judgment that is coming and is here already. Everything they use to make
themselves pretty and to show themselves as a superior class will be worthless
and they will suffer a great deal.
Finally, the men who so valiantly protect
them will die and Jerusalem and these high and mighty women will be brought
low. Can you compare this with the items women in America wear today? From nose
rings to hairstyles to jewelry there is much to compare and consider.
Compare Isaiah 3 to Leviticus.
Isaiah 3:1 ¶
For, behold, the Lord, 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,
Leviticus 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your
bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you
your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Isaiah 3:14
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and
the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is
in your houses.
Leviticus 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,
neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them
for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground.
Leviticus 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and
shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall
accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised
my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
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