Isaías 3:17

17 Por eso el Señor le mandará costras a su cabeza.
El Señor
dejará calva a la hermosa Sión».

Isaías 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 3:17

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion
This is opposed to the lifting up of their heads in that haughty manner they did, and to the binding, and plaiting, and curling of their hair, which now will fall off, through the scab or leprosy upon them, or must be obliged to be shaven off. And the Lord will discover their secret parts;
the Vulgate Latin renders it, "their hair", which is their glory, ( 1 Corinthians 11:6 ) . The Targum is, "and the Lord shall take away their glory". The Syriac and Arabic versions render it "their sex", that which distinguishes their sex; of which Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it; than which nothing could be more distressing and intolerable, being worse than baldness of the head, and yet common with captives; and the Septuagint render it "their habit": the meaning is, they shall be stripped of their fine apparel, and be clothed in rags, so that their nakedness shall be seen. An enumeration of the several particulars follows.

Isaías 3:17 In-Context

15 ¿Cómo se atreven a aplastar a mi pueblo,
al restregar la cara de los pobres contra el polvo?»,
reclama el Señor, el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.

16 Advertencia a Jerusalén
El Señor
dice: «La hermosa Sión
es altanera:
estira su elegante cuello,
coquetea con los ojos y
camina con pasos delicados
haciendo sonar los brazaletes de sus tobillos.

17 Por eso el Señor le mandará costras a su cabeza.
El Señor
dejará calva a la hermosa Sión».

18 En aquel día de juicio
el Señor
la despojará de todo lo que la embellece:
adornos, diademas, collares con forma de luna creciente,

19 aretes, pulseras, velos,