15 What have ye to do that ye beat my people to pieces, [a]and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord, even the Lord of hosts?

16 The Lord also saith, [b]Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with [c]stretched out necks, and with [d]wandering eyes, walking and [e]mincing as they go, and making a [f]tinkling with their feet,

17 Therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:15 That is, ye show all cruelty against them.
  2. Isaiah 3:16 He meaneth the people because of the arrogancy and pride of their women, which gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution.
  3. Isaiah 3:16 Which declared their pride.
  4. Isaiah 3:16 As a sign, that they were not chaste.
  5. Isaiah 3:16 Which showed their wantonness.
  6. Isaiah 3:16 They delighted then in slippers that did creak, or had little plates sewed upon them, which tinkled as they went.

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