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The Pride of Jerusalem’s Women

16 And Yahweh said: “Because[a] 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,[b]
    and with their feet they rattle their bangles,[c]
17 the Lord will make the heads[d] of the daughters of Zion scabby,
    and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare.”
18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets
    and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:16 There are two Hebrew words for “because” here
  2. Isaiah 3:16 Literally “they go walking and mincing along”
  3. Isaiah 3:16 Literally “they tinkle with their feet”
  4. Isaiah 3:17 Hebrew “head”