why are you using the hiv version first of all, i have posted that text with its context numerous times and its meaning is clear, it describes a punishment according to the author worse than the punishment of the sin of sodom when jerusalem fell and no hands stayed on her meaning nearly all or all were taking into captivity by assyria it describes them before their exile in assyria using past tense and then after the exile when their ancestors came back race mixed to the point of being unrecognizable in the streets half starved with faces blacker than a coal 6 for the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 her nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 8 their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. > to get to the heart of your question though or your point rather, they were proud of the nazarites for just how pure and white they were, but this is not the first recorded instance of their being racemixed its just the one that includes a very descriptive before and after that describes the nazarites as clearly a racially white people.
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