Jeremiah 6:2 “Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Z…”

Jeremiah 6:2

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue compared the daughter of Zion to a beautifull and daintie woman.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.

Bible in Basic English

The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.

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Cross references

“daughter”

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

Jeremiah 4:31 · BSB

For 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 mu…

Isaiah 1:8 · BSB

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Lamentations 2:1 · BSB

How 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.

Lamentations 2:13 · BSB

What 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?

Isaiah 3:16 · BSB

The 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—

Isaiah 3:17 · BSB

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare. ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

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