earrings, bracelets, and veils;
Parallel translations
- WEB the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
- KJV The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
- BSB their pendants, bracelets, and veils;
- NKJV The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
- NASB dangling earrings, bracelets, 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
Cross-references · 8
- Ezek 16:11I decked you with ornaments. put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
- Gen 38:18He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
- Num 31:50We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
- Gen 24:53The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
- Gen 24:22As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Exod 35:22They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
- Gen 24:30When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Gen 38:25When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these — the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
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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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