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“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.

Judah’s Women Denounced

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Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud
And walk with outstretched necks and seductive (flirtatious, alluring) eyes,
And trip along with mincing steps and an affected gait
And walk with jingling [a]anklets on their feet,
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Therefore the Lord will afflict the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion with scabs [making them bald],
And the Lord will expose their foreheads (send them into captivity).”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:16 Decorative chains attached from one ankle to the other to insure a measured gait.

15 What do you mean by crushing my people(A)
    and grinding(B) the faces of the poor?”(C)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.(D)

16 The Lord says,
    “The women of Zion(E) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,(F)
    flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
    with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
17 Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
    the Lord will make their scalps bald.(G)

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