Isaiah 3:16
New Living Translation
A Warning to Jerusalem
16 The Lord says, “Beautiful Zion[a] is haughty:
craning her elegant neck,
flirting with her eyes,
walking with dainty steps,
tinkling her ankle bracelets.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
New Living Translation
49 Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door. 50 She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.[a]
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- 16:50 As in a few Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version; Masoretic Text reads as I have seen.
Isaiah 32:9-11
New Living Translation
9 Listen, you women who lie around in ease.
Listen to me, you who are so smug.
10 In a short time—just a little more than a year—
you careless ones will suddenly begin to care.
For your fruit crops will fail,
and the harvest will never take place.
11 Tremble, you women of ease;
throw off your complacency.
Strip off your pretty clothes,
and put on burlap to show your grief.
Isaiah 4:4
New Living Translation
4 The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion[a]
and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains
with the hot breath of fiery judgment.
Footnotes
- 4:4 Or from the women of Zion; Hebrew reads from the daughters of Zion.
Matthew 21:5
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5 “Tell the people of Jerusalem,[a]
‘Look, your King is coming to you.
He is humble, riding on a donkey—
riding on a donkey’s colt.’”[b]
Proverbs 30:13
New Living Translation
13 They look proudly around,
casting disdainful glances.
Luke 23:28
New Living Translation
28 But Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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Zephaniah 3:11
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11 On that day you will no longer need to be ashamed,
for you will no longer be rebels against me.
I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you.
There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain.
Isaiah 24:4
New Living Translation
4 The earth mourns and dries up,
and the land wastes away and withers.
Even the greatest people on earth waste away.
Isaiah 3:18
New Living Translation
18 On that day of judgment
the Lord will strip away everything that makes her beautiful:
ornaments, headbands, crescent necklaces,
Isaiah 1:8
New Living Translation
8 Beautiful Jerusalem[a] stands abandoned
like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.
Footnotes
- 1:8 Hebrew The daughter of Zion.
Proverbs 16:18
New Living Translation
18 Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.
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