Jeremiah 6:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I have likened daughter Zion to the loveliest pasture.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The comely and delicate one, [Jerusalem] the Daughter of Zion, I will destroy. [To a pasturage, yes, a luxurious pasturage, have I likened her.]

American Standard Version (1901)

The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

Common English Bible

You are like a lovely pasture, Daughter Zion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have compared the daughter of Zion to a beautiful and delicate woman.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.

Jeremiah 6:2 Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:13

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can heal you?

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Deuteronomy 28:56

She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,