their pendants, bracelets, and veils;
Parallel translations
- WEB the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
- KJV The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
- NKJV The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
- NASB dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
- NLT earrings, bracelets, and veils;
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Quick answer
The list of ornaments to be removed continues with earrings, bracelets, and veils. It reinforces that nothing of Jerusalem's prized adornment will survive the day of judgment.
Overview
Each item named here was a mark of status and beauty in ancient Judah. By itemizing them, Isaiah drives home the totality of the loss the proud will suffer when God acts. The accumulation of detail makes the judgment feel inevitable and complete, exposing the emptiness of trusting in finery over righteousness.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 16:11I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
- Gen 38:18“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Num 31:50So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- Gen 24:53Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
- Gen 24:22And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
- Exod 35:22So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
- Gen 24:30As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
- Gen 38:25As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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