Isaiah 3:16

"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; therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts."

Clarkson described the womanly folly of this section as "The latest and saddest symptom of Israel's decline," adding:

"Corruption may have spread far and done much evil in the community; but there is hope for the city or the church so long as the wives and the mothers, the daughters and the sisters retain their moral and spiritual integrity. When that is gone, all is gone. Purity and worth find their last retreat under the domestic roof; if they be driven thence, they are doomed to die; and with that death any community, church or nation shall soon perish."[13]

"Outstretched necks and wanton eyes ..." Many translators understand this to mean "shameless and immodest behavior" designed to attract men. Peake rendered "ogling eyes" for "wanton "[14] eyes.

"And will lay bare their secret parts ..." This was literally the shameful punishment that was given to women convicted of adultery, as described in Nahum 3:5-6 -

"I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock."

In Nahum this was described as the punishment God would inflict upon Nineveh; and here the same punishment is promised for apostate Israel.