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Brenton's Septuagint

Jeremiah 6:2

And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Kir-Hareseth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Zechariah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Delicate;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Though she is beautiful and delicate,I will destroy Daughter Zion.
Hebrew Names Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Tziyon, will I cut off.
King James Version
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
English Standard Version
The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
New American Standard Bible
"The beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will destroy.
New Century Version
Jerusalem, I will destroy you, you who are fragile and gentle.
Amplified Bible
"I will destroy the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), the lovely and delicate one [so like a luxurious pasture].
World English Bible
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue compared the daughter of Zion to a beautifull and daintie woman.
Legacy Standard Bible
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will ruin.
Berean Standard Bible
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
Contemporary English Version
Jerusalem is a lovely pasture, but shepherds will surround it and divide it up,
Complete Jewish Bible
Although she is beautiful and delicate, I am cutting off the daughter of Tziyon."
Darby Translation
The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jerusalem, you are like a beautiful meadow. But I will destroy you!
George Lamsa Translation
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Good News Translation
The city of Zion is beautiful, but it will be destroyed;
Lexham English Bible
The lovely and the delicate, the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy.
Literal Translation
I will destroy the daughter of Zion, the beautiful and tender one.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will licken the doughter Sion to a fayre and tendre woman, and to her shall come the shepherdes with their flockes.
American Standard Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
Bible in Basic English
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
King James Version (1611)
I haue likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll liken the daughter Sion to a faire and tender woman, and to her shall come the shepheardes with their flockes.
English Revised Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y haue licned the douytir of Sion to a fair womman and delicat.
Update Bible Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.
Webster's Bible Translation
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].
New English Translation
I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.
New King James Version
I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.
New Living Translation
O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter— but I will destroy you!
New Life Bible
I will cut off the beautiful and fine ones, the people of Zion.
New Revised Standard
I have likened daughter Zion to the loveliest pasture.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:
Douay-Rheims Bible
I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
Revised Standard Version
The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
Young's Literal Translation
The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

Contextual Overview

1 Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming. 2 And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away. 3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand. 4 Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail. 5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations. 6 For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her. 7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her. 8 Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

daughter: Jeremiah 4:31, Isaiah 1:8, Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 3:17, Lamentations 2:1, Lamentations 2:13

comely and delicate woman: or, a woman dwelling at home

Reciprocal: Isaiah 32:9 - ye women Jeremiah 4:17 - keepers Lamentations 4:5 - that did 1 Timothy 5:6 - in pleasure

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 4:26
And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enos: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.
Genesis 6:1
And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:2
And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:4
And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:6
And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,
Genesis 6:7
then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered it deeply.
Genesis 6:8
And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
Genesis 6:12
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. That dwells at home and lives in pleasure, and deliciously, in great peace and quietness, in entire ease and security, in no fear of enemies, or apprehension of danger; and so it describes the secure state of the Jews. Kimchi and Ben Melech supply the word "woman" as we do; but others supply "land" or "pasture"; and think that the Jewish nation is compared to pleasant and delightful lands and pastures, which are inviting to shepherds to come and pitch their tents about them; as follows. The words are by some rendered, "O beautiful and delicate one, I have cut off, or destroyed the daughter of Zion" o; in which sense the word is used in Isaiah 6:5 and to this purpose is the Targum,

"O beautiful and delicate one, how hast thou corrupted thy ways? therefore the congregation of Zion is confounded;''

but the former senses seem to be best; in which the word used is understood as having the signification of likening or comparing; for which see Song of Solomon 1:9.

o So Jarchi and Joseph Kimchi. Vid. Gataker in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The whole verse is difficult, but should probably be translated; “to a pasturage, yea a luxuriant pasturage, have I likened (or, have reduced to silence, i. e., destroyed) the daughter of Zion.”


 
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