Jeremiah 6:2
What does Jeremiah 6:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 6:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.
Context
v.1Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
v.2This passage
v.3Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
- Lamentations 2:13
What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
- Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
- Isaiah 3:16
Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
- Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
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