Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Isaiah 3:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The Lord also says: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with heads held high and seductive eyes, prancing along, jingling their ankle bracelets, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Moreover, the Lord said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and with undisciplined (flirtatious and alluring) eyes, tripping along with mincing and affected gait, and making a tinkling noise with [the anklets on] their feet, American Standard Version (1901) 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; Common English Bible The LORD says: Because Zion’s daughters applaud themselves, walking with their chins in the air, flirting with their eyes, tiptoeing as they walk, feet jingling— Catholic Public Domain Version And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion have been lifted up, and have walked with extended necks and winking eyes, because they have continued on, walking noisily and advancing with a pretentious stride, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out-necks and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet, and moved in a set pace: |
Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
The lamp that guides the wicked – haughty eyes and an arrogant heart #– #is sin.
There is a generation #– #how haughty its eyes and pretentious its looks.
Go out, young women of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding – the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Daughter Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.
Note this: The Lord God of Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,
the Lord will put scabs on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.
On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents,
‘I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers will govern them.’
when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodguilt from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgement and a spirit of burning.
On that day you will not be put to shame because of everything you have done in rebelling against me. For then I will remove from among you your jubilant, arrogant people, and you will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.
Tell Daughter Zion, ‘See, your King is coming to you, gentle, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ,
But turning to them, Jesus said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.