Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will cut off the comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
- KJV I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
- NKJV I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.
- NASB “The beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will destroy.
- NLT O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter— but I will destroy you!
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Quick answer
God announces He will destroy beautiful, pampered Zion, pictured as a delicate young woman. Outward loveliness offers no protection against the consequences of sin.
Overview
'Daughter of Zion' personifies Jerusalem as cherished yet now appointed for ruin. The tender description heightens the tragedy: what was lovely will be cut off. The lament tone reveals that God takes no delight in judgment even as He executes it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Jer 4:31For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
- Lam 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- Isa 3:16–17The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Lam 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
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