The daughter of Tziyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
Jeremiah 6:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Tziyon, will I cut off. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
The daughter of Tziyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tziyon, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Tziyon with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Yisra'el, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Yerushalayim? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Tziyon? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,