Isaias 3:17
The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- decalvabit Dominus verticem filiarum Sion, et Dominus crinem earum nudabit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ταπεινώσει ὁ θεὸς ἀρχούσας θυγατέρας Σειών. καὶ Κύριος ἀνακαλύψει τὸ σχῆμα αὐτῶν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשִׂפַּ֣ח אֲדֹנָ֔י קָדְקֹ֖ד בְּנ֣וֹת צִיּ֑וֹן וַיהוָ֖ה פָּתְהֵ֥ן יְעָרֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Bald. Like slaves, Deuteronomy xxi. 12.
Hair. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shame."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, Sermon on the Mount Continued. Its Woes in Strict Agreement with the Creator's Disposition. Many Quotations Out of the Old Testament in Proof of This
“In the like manner,” says He, “did their fathers unto the prophets.” What a turncoat is Marcion’s Christ! Now the destroyer, now the advocate of the prophets! He destroyed them as their rival, by converting their disciples; he took up their cause as their friend, by stigmatizing their persecutors. But, in as far as the defence of the prophets could not be consistent in the Christ of Marcion, who came to destroy them; in so far is it becoming to the Creator’s Christ that He should stigmatize those who persecuted the prophets, for He in all things accomplished their predictions. Again, it is more characteristic of the Creator to upbraid sons with their fathers’ sins, than it is of that god who chastizes no man for even his own misdeeds. …