Isaiah 3:16 (WEB)
Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
Fathers and councils · 7
Jerome
“And so God says by Isaiah, “O my people, they which bless you cause you to err, and trouble the paths of your feet.”” — editor's note: Is. iii. 16.
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Justin Martyr
“‘For the daughters of Zion have walked with a high neck, both sporting by winking with their eyes, and sweeping along their dresses.” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16.
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John Chrysostom
“But if thou desirest to hear also His rebuke for them in particular, listen to Isaiah,in many words inveighing against them, and deriding their habit, their aspect, their gait, their trailing garments, their tripping feet, their drooping necks.” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment“For straightway Isaiah,that hath the fullest voice of all, as soon as he hath seen thee, will cry out, “These things saith the Lord against the princely daughters of Sion; because…” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16, 24 [LXX.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And instead of a sweet smell there shall be dust; and thou shalt be girt with a rope instead of with a girdle; and for a golden ornament of thy head thou shalt have baldness.”” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16.
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Tertullian
“Similarly against the daughters of Sion does He inveigh by Isaiah, when they were haughty through their pomp and the abundance of their riches, just as in another passage He utters His threats against the proud and noble: “Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth, and down to it shall descend…” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16–24.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore thus saith the Lord by Isaiah, “Because the daughters of Sion walk with lofty neck, and with winkings of the eyes, and sweeping their garments as they walk, and playing with their feet; the Lord shall humble the daughters of Sion, and will uncover their form”—their deformed form.” — editor's note: τὸ ἄσχημον σχῆμα (Isa. iii. 16, 17), Sept.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 27.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 27.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 27.