Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
International Standard Version
"The daughter of Zion is left abandoned, like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, or like a city under siege.
A Conservative Version
And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is left like a [deserted] shelter in a vineyard,
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city [isolated, surrounded by devastation].
Bible in Basic English
And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
Darby Translation
And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.
Julia Smith Translation
And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged.
King James 2000
And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.
Modern King James verseion
And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover the daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like a watch house in time of war, like a besieged city.
NET Bible
Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.
New Heart English Bible
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
The Emphasized Bible
And left is the Daughter of Zion, Like a hut in a vineyard, - Like a lodge in a gourd-plot Like a city besieged.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
Youngs Literal Translation
And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.
Themes
Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Cucumbers
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Cucumber
Sieges » Illustrative of » Zion in her affliction
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 1:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rebellious Judah
7
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.
8
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:32
This day they will halt at Nob. They will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Job 27:18
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
Isaiah 37:22
this is the word Jehovah spoke against him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Zechariah 2:10
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For I am coming, and I will dwell in the midst of you, said Jehovah.
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous having salvation. He is humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the son of a she ass.
Psalm 9:14
Let me stand before the people of Jerusalem and tell them all the things for which I praise you. I will rejoice because you saved me.
Isaiah 4:4
Jehovah will wash away the filth of the daughters (women) of Zion and purge the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 8:8
It will sweep through Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will be neck-high. Its outspread wings will extend over your entire country, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 62:11
Jehovah has announced to the ends of the earth: Tell my people, Zion, your salvation is coming. His reward for us and recompense are with him.'
Jeremiah 4:17
They surround Judah like men guarding a field, because Judah has rebelled against me, declares Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:1
In his anger Jehovah covered Zion with clouds of darkness. He changed its heavenly splendor into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his footstool.
Lamentations 2:6
He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
Luke 19:43-44
The time is coming when your enemies will surround you and blockade you with a rampart (wall) on all sides. They will close in on you.
John 12:15
Do not fear daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes sitting on a donkey's colt. (Zechariah 9:9)