Jeremiah 6:2
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New International Version (©1984)
I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.

New Living Translation (©2007)
O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter--but I will destroy you!

English Standard Version (©2001)
The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"My people Zion are like lovely pastures.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a lovely and delicate woman.

American King James Version
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

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

Young's Literal Translation
The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.

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."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 Sol 1:9.

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


Geneva Study Bible

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

(d) I have intreated her gently, and given her abundance of all things.


King James Translators' Notes

comely: or, dwelling at home


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. likened-rather, "I lay waste." Literally, "O comely and delicate one, I lay waste the daughter of Zion," that is, "thee." So Zec 3:9, "before Joshua," that is, "before thee" [Maurer].


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean army shall break in upon the land of Judah, and in a little time devour all. The day is coming, when those careless and secure in sinful ways will be visited. It is folly to trifle when we have eternal salvation to work out, and the enemies of that salvation to fight against. But they were thus eager, not that they might fulfil God's counsels, but that they might fill their own treasures; yet God thereby served his own purposes. The corrupt heart of man, in its natural state, casts out evil thoughts, just as a fountain casts out her waters. It is always flowing, yet always full. The God of mercy is loth to depart even from a provoking people, and is earnest with them, that by repentance and reformation, they may prevent things from coming to extremity.


Deuteronomy 28:56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you--so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot--will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter
Isaiah 1:8 The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
Jeremiah 4:31 I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child--the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."
Lamentations 4:5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those nurtured in purple now lie on ash heaps.

Beautiful Bred Cut Dainty Daughter Delicate Delicately Destroy Fair Hand Likened Zion


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

daughter. See on ch. 4:31 Isa 1:8 3:16,17 La 2:1,13

comely and delicate woman. or a woman dwelling at home.

Jeremiah Chapter 6 Verse 2

Alphabetical: and beautiful comely cut dainty Daughter delicate destroy I of off one so the will Zion

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