And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
The daughter of Zion - the city (Psalms 9:14) Jerusalem and its inhabitants (2 Kings 19:21); daughter, feminine singular being used as a neuter collective noun, comprehending all the sons (see below, margin, Isaiah 12:6). (Maurer.) Metropolis or mother-city is the corresponding term. The idea of youthful beauty is included in daughter.
Is left - as a remnant escaping the general destruction.
As a cottage - a hut, made to give temporary shelter to the care-taker of the vineyard.
As a lodge - not permanent.
As a besieged city (Netzurah-rather, as "left and Isaiah 1:9 require, a city preserved-namely, from the desolation all round (Maurer). But the Septuagint, Chaldaic, Arabic, and Syriac support the English version.