Isaiah 3 and jewelry...

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by rdp

Sure it's literal...which is more than we can say for Ezek. 16! The context of Is. 3 is extravangance & ostentatious display manifest thru ornamentation. Thus, when we come to the clothing articles listed, it's apparent [& some translations actually indicate this] that there was elaborate designs & probably even metals woven into them. The point is, they were "literally" wearing this stuff...which God called "filth" in chp. 4:4. Do we have the same God today or not? Of course we do........rdp.

Wow. You have to really stretch to know for a fact that Isa. 4:4 is referring directly to their adornment as "filth."

Why would God say that their adornment was filth, when He's the one who adorned them in the first place? You keep complaining about people skipping over the word "...NOT...(with gold....)", but you don't seem to want to acknowledge that God decorated Israel in the first place. He took it away as a punishment for their sins.

Eze 16:7 -14 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

....Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

...Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

...I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

...I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

...And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

...Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

...And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.



Let's get this straight:

GOD adorned Israel, because she pleased Him. (Of course, we know that later it was all taken away because she displeased Him.)

What is your straightforward interpretation of that?


IMO, the explanation for this passage, and the principle for the NT verses are found in this pivotal verse:

Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.