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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 3, Verse 16

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What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
King James Version
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
American Standard Version
Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
New English Translation
Washing Away Impurity The LORD says,“The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.
World English Bible
Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
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Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon,
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The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
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The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
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The rings, and nose jewels,
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The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
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The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
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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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Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
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And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.