Room for God & Others
Voices

Instead of beauty, branding

Isaiah 3:24 (NIV)

Instead of beauty, branding

Discarded fine cloth, a broken perfume vessel, rope, and sackcloth in severe light.
Illustration generated with ChatGPT by OpenAI, prompted and selected by Greg Conrad Smith, 2026.

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.

–Isaiah 3:24 (NIV)