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
The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
Lamentations 2:6
(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The Lord has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Besieged

Isaiah 8:8
It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, O Immanuel."
Isaiah 10:32
This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion's mountain -- at the hill of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 4:17
They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me," says the Lord.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

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