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Isaiah 3:17

therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Isaiah 3:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Jeremiah 13:22 If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.
  • Leviticus 13:29-30 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
  • Leviticus 13:43-44 Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
  • Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
  • Micah 1:11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
  • Revelation 16:2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
  • Deuteronomy 28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
  • Isaiah 47:2-3 Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
  • Ezekiel 16:36-37 ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
  • Ezekiel 23:25-29 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire. They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels. Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’ “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated. They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
  • Nahum 3:5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a…

Isa 3:17 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.

Ver. 17. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head.] He will not only pull off their rich pantofles off their feet, but also their lovely locks from off their heads, with scabs and scales, perhaps caused by some foul disease, as the lues venerea or plica polonica. {a}

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And will discover their secret parts.] Not having a rag left to cover them with, while stripped of all by the enemy; they are driven away as those Egyptians were, {Isa 20:4} naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt; or as the Albigenses in France at Carcassona had quarter for their lives given them by the Popish bishops and other cruciates {b} that persecuted them, but on this condition, that both men and wmnen should depart the town stark naked in the view of the whole army. {c}

{a} Turpe pecus mutilum, turpis sine gramine campus: Et sine fronde frutex, et sine crine caput. - Ovid.

{b} Formed like a cross, cross shaped; arranged in the form of a cross.

{c Rivet. Jesuit. Vapul.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Will smite with a scab the crown of the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Secret paths - By giving her into the power…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. The Lord will smite - "Will the…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 3:17. Therefore the Lord will smite, &c. —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab -…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Bald. Like slaves, Deuteronomy xxi. 12. --- Hair. Hebrew…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain smite with a scab--literally, "make bald," namely, by disease.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Smite with a scab — Leprosy, no doubt,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. smite with a scab] In Heb. a single…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) The Lord will smite with a scab .…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Therefore the Lord will smite with a seal. Thus…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 3:17-25 In a reversal of fortune, the affluent and…

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