Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
I will destroy the daughter of Zion, the beautiful and tender one.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Holman Bible
I will destroy
International Standard Version
I'll destroy the lovely and delicate Daughter of Zion.
A Conservative Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.
American Standard Version
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
Amplified
“I will destroy the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), the lovely and delicate one [so like a luxurious pasture].
Bible in Basic English
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
Darby Translation
The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of Zion.
Julia Smith Translation
I likened the daughter of Zion to her becoming and delicate
King James 2000
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a lovely and delicate woman.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The lovely and the delicate, the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will liken the daughter of Zion to a fair and tender woman, and to her shall come the shepherds with their flocks.
NET Bible
I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.
New Heart English Bible
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
The Emphasized Bible
To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:
Webster
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
World English Bible
The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
Youngs Literal Translation
The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.
Interlinear
Damah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
1 O sons of Benjamin, take refuge out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire over Beth-haccerem; for evil appears out of the north, and great ruin. 2 I will destroy the daughter of Zion, the beautiful and tender one. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around; they shall feed each one in his hand.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.
Isaiah 3:16-17
And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and have walked with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.
Lamentations 2:13
What can I testify for you? What thing shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break is great like the sea! Who can heal you?