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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 3, Verse 17

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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:
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
New English Translation
So the Lord will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases; the LORD will make the front of their heads bald.”
World English Bible
therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
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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.
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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.