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The relationship between two consecutive verses in the second half of our chapter bears scrutiny:<\/span><\/p>\n

“How dare you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?\u2014says my Lord GOD of Hosts. The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are so vain and walk with heads thrown back, with roving eyes, and with mincing gait, making a tinkling with their feet” (15-16).<\/span><\/p>\n

The tendency among the principal medieval exegetes was to view the first verse as accusing the Judean nobility of oppressing the downtrodden, and the second verse (and those immediately following it) as addressing the practice of harlotry by Judean women. No connection was made between the two, let alone a suggestion that the former was the result of the latter. Malbim, however, drew just such a connection,* writing:<\/span><\/p>\n

This verse is connected to the one that follows in the manner of a question and answer. God asks: \u201cHow dare you crush my people?\u201d and He replies, rhetorically, \u201cBecause the daughters of Zion are so vain.\u201d The officials of Jerusalem were cheating and stealing and taking bribes because their \u201choity toity\u201d wives wasted their money on jewelry (described in vs. 18-23). To meet their demands, their husbands, the officials, were disposed towards cheating and robbery. Hence, God asked them \u201cHow dare you crush my people?\u201d\u2014Why can\u2019t you be satisfied with your wealth? Why don\u2019t you find it enough?”<\/span><\/p>\n

On this account, [God] decreed their punishment, because \u201cthey walk with heads thrown back, with an erect posture, roving eyes, a mincing gait\u201d\u2014in the manner of children on the run, and \u201cmaking a tinkling with their feet\u201d to attract attention. Therefore, \u201cMy Lord will bare the pates of the daughters of Zion, the LORD will uncover their heads\u201d (17).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than a condemnation of blatant immorality\u2014which is always present, but often confined to the margins of society\u2014Malbim interpreted this sequence of verses as a rebuke to the people usually at the center of society: its public officials, charged with the equitable administration of social justice. Their inability to find satisfaction with their lots, the ever-present \u201ckeeping up with the Joneses,\u201d becomes the prime cause of injustice and oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":64859,"id":64859,"title":"is3-fashion-models","filename":"is3-fashion-models.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/vanity-thy-name-is-woman\/is3-fashion-models\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is3-fashion-models","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":64858,"date":"2019-10-27 15:43:38","modified":"2019-10-27 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