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15 How dare you crush[a] my people
    as you grind down the face of the poor?”
        declares the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies.[b]

Judgment of Jerusalem’s Women

16 The Lord also says:

“Because Zion’s women are so haughty,
    and walk with outstretched necks,
flirting with their eyes,
    prancing[c] along as they walk,
        and making tinkling noises with their ankle bracelets,[d]
17 therefore the Lord[e] will afflict sores
    on the heads of Zion’s women,
        and the Lord[f] will expose their private parts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:15 Lit. What do you mean by crushing
  2. Isaiah 3:15 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks this line
  3. Isaiah 3:16 Or mincing
  4. Isaiah 3:16 Lit. their feet
  5. Isaiah 3:17 So 1QIsaa corrector; 1QIsaa 4QIsab MT read my Lord; LXX reads God
  6. Isaiah 3:17 So 1QIsaa corrector MT; 1QIsaa reads my Lord

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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