Isaiah 3 · Verse 23

Isaiah 3:23

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Isaiah 3:23, King James Version

Isaiah 3:23 in other translations

BSBand their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.
WEBthe hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
ASVthe hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.
YLTOf the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,
DARBYthe mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.
BBEThe looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.
WebsterThe glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

What does Isaiah 3:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. glasses--mirrors of polished metal (Ex 38:8). But the Septuagint, a transparent, gauze-like, garment. hoods--miters, or diadems (Is 62:3; Zec 3:5). veils--large enough to cover the head and person. Distinct from the smaller veils ("mufflers") above (Ge 24:65). Token of woman's subjection (1Co 11:10).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 The glasses - The conjunction ו vau, and - And the glasses, is added here by forty-three of Kennicott's and thirty-four of De Rossi's MSS., and one of my own, ancient, as well as by many editions. And the veils. "The transparent garments" - Τα διαφανη Λακωνικα, Sept. A kind of silken dress, transparent, like gauze; worn only by the most elegant women, and such as dressed themselves elegantius quam necesse esset probis, "more elegantly than modest women should." Such garments are worn to the present day; garments that not only show the shape of every part of the body, but the very color of the skin. This is evidently the case in some scores of drawings of Asiatic females now before me. This sort of garments was afterwards in use among the Greeks. Prodicus, in his celebrated fable (Xenoph. Memorab. Socr. lib. ii.) exhibits the personage of Sloth in this dress: Εσθητα δε, εξ ἡς αν μαλιστα ὡρα διαλαμποι: - "Her robe betray'd Through the clear texture every tender limb, Height'ning the charms it only seem'd to shade; And as it flow'd adown so loose and thin, Her stature show'd more tall, more snowy white her skin." They were called multitia and coa (scil, vestimenta) by the Romans, from their being invented, or rather introduced into Greece, by one Pamphila of the island of Cos. This, like other Grecian fashions, was received at Rome, when luxury began to prevail under the emperors. It was sometimes worn even by the men, but looked upon as a mark of extreme effeminacy. See Juvenal, Sat. ii., 65, etc. Publius Syrus, who lived when the fashion was first introduced, has given a humorous satirical description of it in two lines, which by chance have been preserved: - "Aequum est, induere nuptam ventum textilem? Palam prostare nudam in nebula linea?"

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 3:16-26

The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the just punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornaments they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, would have been…

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Isaiah 3:23 in the original Hebrew

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וְהַגִּלְיֹנִים֙ve.ha.gil.yo.Nimand the mirrorsH1549
וְהַסְּדִינִ֔יםve.ha.se.di.Nimand the linen garmentsH5466
וְהַצְּנִיפ֖וֹתve.ha.tze.ni.Fotand the headdressesH6797
וְהָרְדִידִֽים\׃ve.ha.re.di.Dimand the shawlsH7289

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 3:23

  • Revelation 19:8

    And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

  • Song of Solomon 5:7

    The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • Exodus 38:8

    And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Genesis 41:42

    And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

  • Ezekiel 16:10

    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.

  • Genesis 24:65

    For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

  • Luke 16:19

    There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

  • Ruth 3:15

    Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:27

    And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

  • Revelation 19:14

    And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
glasses.
Ex 38:8
fine linen.
Ge 41:42; 1Ch 15:27; Eze 16:10; Lu 16:19; Re 19:8,14
vails.
Ge 24:65; Ru 3:15; So 5:7

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Context

  • Isaiah 3:22

    The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

  • Isaiah 3:23

    The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

  • Isaiah 3:24

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

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Isaiah 3:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los espejos, los pañizuelos, las gasas, y los tocados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et les miroirs, et les chemises, et les turbans, et les voiles de gaze.
German
Elberfelder 1871
die Handspiegel und die Hemden und die Turbane und die Überwürfe.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et specula, et sindones, et vittas, et theristra.