OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 3:18

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In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

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Verse 18. Of shoes. Hebrew “gold tissue.” Psalms 44:14. This term occurs no where else, and many of these superfluous ornaments are not well known. But we may conclude that they are pernicious to a state, and hateful to God. Calmet.—Decorem … invitatorem libidinis scimus. Tert. cult.

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