Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 3:17; Jeremiah 4:31; Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 2:13
The whole verse is difficult, but should probably be translated; “to a pasturage, yea a luxuriant pasturage, have I likened (or, have reduced to si...
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.
The Siege of the Sinful City. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in...
daughter. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the helpless inhabitants. woman. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 28:56 ). A...
As the place, where the Prophet was born, was pastoral, he retained many expressions derived from his education; for God did not divest his ser...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman .
I have likened the daughter of Zion— There seems to be nothing in the simile in this verse, that can at all suit with the continuation of it in the...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. Likened - rather, 'I lay waste,' х daamaah ( H1819 )] - literally, "O...
1-8. The hostile army approaches.
RV 'The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion will I cut off,' a tenderly worded lament over the ill-fated city. Daughter ] is used for the...
To a comely and delicate woman. — “Woman” is not in the Hebrew, and the word translated “comely” is elsewhere ( Isaiah 65:10 ; Jeremiah 23:3 ; Ex...
Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand wh...
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem....
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, th...
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...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman]. Ver. 2. I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman....
I have likened , &c. There being nothing for woman in the Hebrew text, and the word נוה, here rendered comely , frequently signifying a past...
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. B. C. 608....
Woman: this supplement is not in the text; they that approve it render the epithet comely variously, for one dwelling at home, as the Hebrew nays...
His People Are To Prepare For Action Because The Invasion Is Upon Them ( Jeremiah 6:1-8 ). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Ben...
In View Of Judah's Failure To Respond To His Warnings YHWH Stresses That The Invasion Is Now Imminent ( Jeremiah 6:1-30 ). Chapter 4 had predicted...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES . —1. Chronological and Historical position of this chapter the same . (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. Geographical Ref...
Jeremiah 6:1 . Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem. Many of this tribe lived in the city. Blow the trumpet [of alarm]...
Arise, and let us go up at noon. Christian effort That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to t...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance....
The Advice to Flee from Jerusalem
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman, literally, "The comely and delicate one! I destroy the daughter of Zion," laying...
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comelya and delicate woman.