◄ Jeremiah 6:2 ►
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Good News Translation
The city of Zion is beautiful, but it will be destroyed;

New Revised Standard Version
I have likened daughter Zion to the loveliest pasture.

Contemporary English Version
Jerusalem is a lovely pasture,

New American Bible
Lovely and delicate daughter Zion, you are ruined!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

daughter.

Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

Isaiah 3:16,17 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: . . .

Lamentations 2:1,13 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. . . .

comely and delicate woman.

Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
1Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction. 2I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.3The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,

Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.

Lamentations 4:5
He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Jeremiah 6:1
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