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Isaiah 3:16

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the daughters: Isaiah 1:8, Isaiah 4:4; Matthew 21:5; Luke 23:28

are haughty: Isaiah 24:4, Isaiah 32:9-11; Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 30:13; Ezekiel 16:49-50; Zephaniah 3:11

wanton eyes: Heb. deceiving with their eyes, Or, as messakkaroth ainayim: is rendered in the Targum, "painting their eyes with stibium": for sakar: is probably the same as the Chaldee sekar: or that import.

mincing: or, tripping nicely

and making: The Eastern ladies wear on their ankles large rings to which smaller ones are attached, which make a tinkling sound as they move nimbly.

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