Isaiah 3:23
23 and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls.
Other Translations of Isaiah 3:23
King James Version
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
English Standard Version
23 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
The Message
23 all the world's finest in fabrics and design.
New King James Version
23 and the mirrors; The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.
New Living Translation
23 mirrors, fine linen garments, head ornaments, and shawls.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 3:23
Commentary on Isaiah 3:16-26
(Read Isaiah 3:16-26)
The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the just punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornaments they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, would have been ridiculed then as now. Their fashions differed much from those of our times, but human nature is the same. Wasting time and money, to the neglect of piety, charity, and even of justice, displease the Lord. Many professors at the present day, seem to think there is no harm in worldly finery; but were it not a great evil, would the Holy Spirit have taught the prophet to expose it so fully? The Jews being overcome, Jerusalem would be levelled with the ground; which is represented under the idea of a desolate female seated upon the earth. And when the Romans had destroyed Jerusalem, they struck a medal, on which was represented a woman sitting on the ground in a posture of grief. If sin be harboured within the walls, lamentation and mourning are near the gates.