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Isaiah 3:16
Isaiah 3:16 is verse 16 of Isaiah chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
King James Version
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:
World English Bible
Moreover Yahweh 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;
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Isaiah 3:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
16 The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
18 In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
Isaiah 4:4when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Matthew 21:5“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
Luke 23:28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
Isaiah 32:10In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 30:13There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
Zephaniah 3:11On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.