OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 3:16

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Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

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Verse 16. Pace. Prot. “and making a tinkling with their feet,” ( Bible.) by means of little rings round their legs. Calmet. Stridore ad se juvenes vocat. Saint Jerome ep. xlvii.—The daughters of Sion, denote all the cities and villages which were defaced by the Chaldees, and still more by the Romans, forty years after Christ. Saint Jerome Worthington.

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