Jeremiah 6:2

The daughter of Zion, the beautiful and delicate woman, will be destroyed. 1

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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

In Context

1Find safety, people of Benjamin, by leaving Jerusalem. Blow a trumpet in Tekoa. 1 Raise up over Beth Hakkerem a signal, since wickedness is appearing from the north; a great crushing is coming. 1

3The shepherds and their flocks will go to them; 1 they will set up tents against her all around; each man will shepherd with his own hand. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, 1 like a shed in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city. 1

Jeremiah 4:31So I hear the sound of anguish, distress as in the birth of a firstborn child, the sound of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath. She spreads out her hands, 'Woe to me! I am fainting because of these murderers.'”

Lamentations 2:13What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem? 1 To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? 1 Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you? 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9

Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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