I gave you expensive clothing of fine linen and silk, beautifully embroidered, and sandals made of fine goatskin leather.
Parallel translations
- WEB I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin shoes on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
- KJV I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
- BSB I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
- NKJV I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
- NASB I also clothed you with colorfully woven cloth and put sandals of fine leather on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
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Quick answer
God clothed her in embroidered garments, fine leather, linen, and silk. He lavished costly beauty on His bride.
Overview
The once-naked child is now richly dressed in the finest materials, language echoing the splendor of the tabernacle and priestly garments. Every good thing Israel possessed was a gift from her divine husband. The verse highlights that all her glory was derived, not earned, a theme central to grace.
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- Ezek 16:18You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
- Ezek 16:13Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Exod 26:36“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Ps 45:13–14The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
- Isa 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Gen 41:42Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
- Luke 15:22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
- Ezek 27:16Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
- Exod 28:5They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exod 39:27–28They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
- Exod 26:14You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
- Rev 19:8It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
- Exod 25:5rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
- Rev 18:12merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
- Ezek 16:7I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
- 1 Pet 3:3–4Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
- Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
- Rev 7:9–14After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Ezek 26:16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
- Ezek 27:7Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.
- Prov 31:22She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
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