ISA. III, 16-26 by G. W. A.

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1859

By G. W. A.

MOREOVER Jehovah saith, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth neck and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their ankle-rings; therefore Jehovah will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will expose their nakedness. In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of their ankle-rings and their net work and their crescents, the ear pendants and the bracelets and the mufflers, the head dresses and the step chains and the girdles and the perfume boxes and the ear rings, the finger rings and nose jewels, the costly garments and the mantles and the cloaks and the purses and the mirrors and the fine linen and the turbans and the vails. And it shall come to pass that instead of perfume, there shall be putrefaction, and instead of a girdle a rope, and instead of curled hair baldness, and instead of a mantle, a girdling of sackcloth and a fire-scar instead of beauty. The men shall fall by the sword, and the mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

[The above paragraph from Bernard's revised and enlarged version of the Bible, is given for the critical and curious. It shows how extravagantly the daughters of Zion anciently went into the gew-gaws and superfluities of dress. But mark, their harps were soon after hanging on Babylonian willows, and themselves captives in a heathen land. Things written aforetime are for our instruction upon whom the ends of the world are come. Sisters dont be high-minded but fear. G. W. A.

ISA. III, 16-26.