Isaiah 3:18-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 3:16-26

The prophet's business was to show all sorts of people what they had contributed to the national guilt and what share they must expect in the national judgments that were coming. Here he reproves and warns the daughters of Zion, tells the ladies of their faults; and Moses, in the law, having denounced God's wrath against the tender and delicate woman (the prophets being a comment upon the law, Deut. 28:56), he here tells them how they shall smart by the calamities that are coming upon them.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:18

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet ,.... With which they made a tinkling as they went, Isaiah 3:16 it being about the shoe, and made a noise; or seeing the word used signifies "stocks", and is so rendered Proverbs 7:22 , it may design some sort of attire about the feet, as golden chains, as the Talmudists say F20 T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 63. 2. Maimon. in Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 4. , which being fastened to both, directed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:19

The chains ,.... According to Kimchi and R. Levi ben Gersom on Judges 8:26 these were drop bottles, or vessels of gold, in which were put stacte or balsam; and the former says here, they were such in which balsam was put, and women hung about their necks; though, he observes, some interpret them of chains, which were made of small stones of bdellium; hence pure bdellium is called in the Arabic tongue אלנטף ; and so Jarchi renders the word "chains"; and they are called by this name,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:20

The bonnets ,.... This word is used sometimes for the tire of the heads of men, Ezekiel 24:17 and even for the bonnets of the priests, Exodus 39:28 . The Targum renders the word "crowns"; the Jewish women wore golden crowns on their heads, in the form of the city of Jerusalem, with which they might not go out on a sabbath day F2 Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. : and the ornaments of the legs ; and so the Targum, "the chains or bracelets of the feet;' with which Jarchi and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:21

The rings ,.... On their finger, as Aben Ezra observes: and nose jewels ; the same with the jewels on the forehead or nose, Ezekiel 16:12 not that they hung upon the nose, but were fastened upon the forehead, and hung down to the nose, see Genesis 24:22 ; an allusion to this is in Proverbs 11:22 though Austin says it was a custom of the women of Mauritania to put jewels in their nose; and which is still kept in Persia, Arabia, and other countries, as travellers affirm. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:22

The changeable suits of apparel ,.... To put on and off upon occasion; Kimchi says they were beautiful garments, and so they stand opposed to filthy ones, Zechariah 3:3 . and the mantles : or "cloaks", as the Targum; Jarchi translates the word by "bedclothes", or coverings for the bed, such as tapestry, rugs, quilts, &c.; which were worked with purple; hence the Septuagint makes use of words to express it by of such a signification: and the wimples ; according to Jarchi, these... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:23

The glasses ,.... Looking glasses, by which they dressed themselves, see Exodus 38:8 and so Kimchi explains the word; but elsewhere F5 Ib. (In Sepher Shorash.) rad. גלה . he says it signifies thin garments, so called because the flesh is seen through them, being so exceeding thin; which sense is favoured by the Septuagint version, which renders it by τα διαφανη λακωνικα , garments which the Lacedemonians wore, which were so thin and transparent, that the naked body might be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:24

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be a stink ,.... Instead of "spice", or in the place where they put spices, carried musk, or had their smelling bottles, of precious and aromatic ointment, balsam, and myrrh, and such like things F7 Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 3. , namely, in their bosoms, there should be a "stink" or putrefaction, arising from ulcers and diseases of the body, Zechariah 14:12 the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:18

Ornaments about their feet "The ornaments of the feet rings" - The late learned Dr. Hunt, professor of Hebrew and Arabic in the University of Oxford, has very well explained the word עכס both verb and noun, in his very ingenious Dissertation on Prov, Isaiah 7:22 , Isaiah 7:23 . The verb means to skip, to bound, to dance along, and the noun, those ornaments of the feet which the Eastern ladies wore; chains or rings, which made a tinkling sound as they moved nimbly in walking. Eugene... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:20

The tablets - The words הנפש בתי bottey hannephesh , which we translate tablets, and Bishop Lowth, perfume boxes, literally signify houses of the soul; and may refer to strong scented bottles used for pleasure and against fainting; similar to bottles with otto of roses, worn by the ladies of the East to the present time. read more

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