Jesaja 3:16

16 Verder zegt de HEERE: Daarom dat de dochteren van Sion zich verheffen, en gaan met uitgestrekten hals, en lonken met de ogen, al gaande en trippelende daarhenen treden, en alsof haar voeten gebonden waren.

Jesaja 3:16 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the Lord saith, because the daughters of Zion are
haughty
The wives or daughters of the rulers, princes, or elders; these were "high", affected to look high and tall, and therefore stretched out their necks, and walked on tiptoes; or "were lifted up" with pride, which is the root and source of all the vanity expressed in their gesture and ornaments. And walk with stretched forth necks
or "throats"; looking high, and above others, and upon them with contempt and disdain; this is a sign of pride; see ( Psalms 75:5 ) : and wanton eyes;
either winking with their eyes to others to follow them to their houses, as Kimchi interprets it; so Jarchi thinks it is expressive of their looks, as we, of wanton looks; and the Septuagint render it, "with winking of eyes"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions, or painting their eyes; so the Targum,

``they walk with their eyes painted,''

as Jezebel painted her face, ( 2 Kings 9:30 ) ( Jeremiah 4:30 ) (arqyo) , in the Talmudic language, is used ^F17 for vermilion, or red lead, with which they painted their eyes, as they did also with (adydu) , ^F18 black lead. Walking and mincing [as] they go:
jumping and dancing as children in the streets; or using the like gesture as those who beat upon a drum; or walking in even paces, in a soft and delicate manner; all which senses Kimchi ^F19 observes in the word. The whole is rendered by the Septuagint, "and in the walk of their feet", or as they walk "together, drawing their coats" upon the ground after them, which makes a noise. The Targum is, "with hair rolled up", bound up and plaited. And making a tinkling with their feet;
having a sort of bells hanging on them, as Kimchi thinks, which made a noise as they went. Of the word here used, and the sense of it, (See Gill on Isaiah 3:18). The Targum renders it, "provoking with their feet"; either the lust of men; or the anger of the Lord, as the Syriac version; the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "playing with the feet".

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 18. 1. Misn. Sabbat. c. 12. sect. 4. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
F18 Targum on 2 Kings ix. 30.
F19 Sepher Shorash. rad. (Ppj) .

Jesaja 3:16 In-Context

14 De HEERE komt ten gerichte tegen de oudsten Zijns volks en deszelfs vorsten, want gijlieden hebt dezen wijngaard verteerd; de roof des ellendigen is in uwe huizen.

15 Wat is ulieden, dat gij Mijn volk verbrijzelt, en de aangezichten der ellendigen vermaalt? spreekt de Heere, HEERE der heirscharen.

16 Verder zegt de HEERE: Daarom dat de dochteren van Sion zich verheffen, en gaan met uitgestrekten hals, en lonken met de ogen, al gaande en trippelende daarhenen treden, en alsof haar voeten gebonden waren.

17 Zo zal de HEERE den schedel der dochteren van Sion schurftig maken, en de HEERE zal haar schaamte ontbloten.

18 Ten zelfden dage zal de HEERE wegnemen het sieraad der kousebanden, en de netjes, en de maantjes.