Isaiah 3:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁷ the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the heads of the daughters of Zion [making them bald], and the Lord will cause them to be [taken as captives and to suffer the indignity of being] stripped naked.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ the Lord will shave the heads of Zion’s daughters, and will expose their scalps.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord will strip them of the locks of their hair.

Isaiah 3:17 Cross References

Song of Solomon 3:11

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;

Isaiah 3:18

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;

Micah 1:11

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.

Nahum 3:5

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed.

Revelation 16:2

So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.