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Isaiah 3:16

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:

KJV

Et dixit Dominus : Pro eo quod elevatæ sunt filiæ Sion, et ambulaverunt extento collo, et nutibus oculorum ibant, et plaudebant, ambulabant pedibus suis, et composito gradu incedebant ;

Vulgate

Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Ἀνθ’ ὧν ὑψώθησαν αἱ θυγατέρες Σειών, καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὑψηλῷ τραχήλῳ καὶ ἐν νεύμασιν ὀφθαλμῶν, καὶ τῇ πορείᾳ τῶν ποδῶν ἅμα σύρουσαι τοὺς χιτῶνας καὶ τοῖς ποσὶν ἅμα παίζουσαι,

LXX

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;

ASV

וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י גָֽבְהוּ֙ בְּנ֣וֹת צִיּ֔וֹן וַ/תֵּלַ֨כְנָה֙ נטוות נְטוּי֣וֹת גָּר֔וֹן וּֽ/מְשַׂקְּר֖וֹת עֵינָ֑יִם הָל֤וֹךְ וְ/טָפֹף֙ תֵּלַ֔כְנָה וּ/בְ/רַגְלֵי/הֶ֖ם תְּעַכַּֽסְנָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
גָּבַ֤הּ
gbh
verb · 34×
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
hvlk
verb · 507×
ו
v
noun · 247×
טָפֹף֙
tpp
verb · 1×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַ֚עַן
y'n
conjunction · 99×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 8×
מְשַׂקְּר֖וֹת
mshqrvt
verb · 1×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
צִיּ֔וֹן
tsyvn
proper_noun · 147×
תְּעַכַּֽסְנָה
t'ksnh
verb · 1×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. For beginning from those passions, which most belong to our whole race, anger, I mean, and desire (for it is these chiefly that bear absolute sway within us, and are more natural than the rest); He with great authority, even such as became a legislator, both corrected them, and reduced them to order with all strictness. For He said not that the adulterer merely is punished; …

Cross-references

  • 1Tim 2:9 — In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
  • 1Tim 5:11 — But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
  • 2Sam 1:24 — Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
  • Deut 28:56 — The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, a
  • Ezek 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  • Isa 1:8 — And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
  • Isa 3:18 — In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
  • Isa 4:4 — When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
  • Isa 4:4 — When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
  • Isa 24:4 — The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
  • Isa 32:9 — Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
  • Isa 32:9 — Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
  • Jer 9:20 — Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
  • Luke 23:28 — But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
  • Matt 21:5 — Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
  • Prov 6:17 — A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 7:10 — And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
  • Prov 16:18 — Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Prov 30:13 — There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
  • Prov 31:13 — She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
  • Song 3:11 — Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
  • Zeph 3:11 — In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt n