Isaiah 3:17

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Isaiah 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

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;

19 their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

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the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.

Leviticus 13:43

The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

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the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

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so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Isaiah 47:2

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Isaiah 47:3

Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

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therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.

Ezekiel 23:25

And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 23:26

They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

Ezekiel 23:27

So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

Ezekiel 23:28

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

Ezekiel 23:29

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Nahum 3:5

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.