Isaiah 3:16

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The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Moreover Jehovah{H3068} said,{H559} Because{H3282} the daughters{H1323} of Zion{H6726} are haughty,{H1361} and walk{H3212} with outstretched{H5186} necks{H1627} and wanton{H8265} eyes,{H5869} walking{H3212} and mincing{H2952} as they go,{H3212} and making a tinkling{H5913} with their feet;{H7272}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Moreover the LORD{H3068} saith{H559}{(H8799)}, Because{H3282} the daughters{H1323} of Zion{H6726} are haughty{H1361}{(H8804)}, and walk{H3212}{(H8799)} with stretched forth{H5186}{(H8803)} necks{H1627} and wanton{H8265}{(H8764)} eyes{H5869}, walking{H1980}{(H8800)} and mincing{H2952}{(H8800)} as they go{H3212}{(H8799)}, and making a tinkling{H5913}{(H8762)} with their feet{H7272}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Morouer thus saieth ye LORDE: Seinge the doughters of Sion are become so proude, and come in with stretched out neckes, and with vayne wanton eyes: seinge they come in trippinge so nycely with their fete:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched out neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feete,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Moreouer the Lord hath said, seing the daughters of Sion are waxen proude, & walke with stretched foorth neckes, and wanton lokes, goyng and trippyng nicely, and tinckelyng with their feete:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving `with' the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Washing Away Impurity The LORD says,“The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 4:4 : 4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleanse the bloodstains of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say! 10 In little more than a year, you who feel secure will tremble, for the grape harvest will fail, and the gathering will not come. 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.
  • Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of food, and abundant ease were hers and her daughters', but they did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They became haughty and committed abominations before me; therefore, I removed them as I saw fit.
  • Song 3:11 : 11 Come out, daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
  • Matt 21:5 : 5 'Say to the daughter of Zion: See, your King is coming to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'
  • Luke 23:28 : 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
  • Isa 3:18 : 18 In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescent ornaments,
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation whose eyes are so arrogant, whose eyelids are lifted up in pride.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 On that day, you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you rebelled against me. For then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty on my holy mountain.
  • Isa 24:4 : 4 The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

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    17 therefore the Lord will make the crowns of the daughters of Zion scabby, and the LORD will expose their secret parts.'

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    15 'Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?' declares the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

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    2 I have likened the beautiful and delicate Daughter of Zion to her destruction.

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    15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?'

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    10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and dressed themselves in sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground in despair.

  • Isa 37:22
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    22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head as you flee.

  • 2 Kgs 19:21
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    21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head at you as you flee.'

  • Jer 9:20
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    20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'

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    11 But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

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    57 before your own wickedness was exposed, like the time you were taunted by the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors, and by the daughters of the Philistines, who looked down on you from every side.

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    4 Why do you boast of your valleys, your abundant valley, O rebellious daughter? You trust in your treasures and say, 'Who will come against me?'

  • Isa 3:8
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    8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.

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    5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

  • Zeph 3:14
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    14 Sing aloud, Daughter Zion; shout, Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

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    12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

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    6 All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they flee without strength before the pursuer.

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    7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

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    8 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of Your judgments, O Lord.

  • Jer 8:19
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    19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?

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    14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.

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    17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

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    30 ‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!

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    14 The children of those who oppressed you will come and bow down before you; all who despised you will bow at your feet. They will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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    25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.

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    39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

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    11 On that day, you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you rebelled against me. For then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty on my holy mountain.

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    13 Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze, and you will crush many nations. You will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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    12 My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.

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    9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say!

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    4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

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    8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

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    11 I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.

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    2 Shake off the dust, rise up; sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains around your neck, captive Daughter of Zion.

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    9 You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.