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The Prophet Isaiah, Michelangelo

Isaiah 3:17

Michelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509, Sistine Chapel

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Isaiah 3:17 (WEB)

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

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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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