Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Cottage

Job 27:18
His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
Lamentations 2:6
And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

Besieged

Isaiah 8:8
And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
Isaiah 10:32
This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 4:17
Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.
Luke 19:43
For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain