I have compared the daughter of Zion to [a]a beautiful and dainty woman.

The Pastors with their flocks [b]shall come unto her: they shall pitch their tents round about by her, and everyone shall feed in his place.

[c]Prepare war against her: arise, and let us go up toward the South: woe unto us: for the day declineth, and the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:2 I have entreated her gently, and given her abundance of all things.
  2. Jeremiah 6:3 She shall be so destroyed; that the sheep may be fed in her.
  3. Jeremiah 6:4 He speaketh this in the person of the Babylonians, which complain that the time faileth them before they have brought their enterprises to pass.

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