John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 6:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.] That dwells at home and lives in pleasure, and deliciously, in great peace and quietness, in entire ease and security, in no fear of enemies, or apprehension of danger; and so it describes the secure state of the Jews. Kimchi and Ben Melech supply the word “woman” as we do; but others supply “land” or “pasture”; and think that the Jewish nation is compared to pleasant and delightful lands and pastures, which are inviting to shepherds to come and pitch their tents about them; as follows. The words are by some rendered, “O beautiful and delicate one, I have cut off, or destroyed the daughter of Zion”f134; in which sense the word is used in (<230605>Isaiah 6:5 <280405> Hosea 4:5) and to this purpose is the Targum, “O beautiful and delicate one, how hast thou corrupted thy ways? therefore the congregation of Zion is confounded;” but the former senses seem to be best; in which the word used is understood as having the signification of likening or comparing; for which (see <220109>Song of Solomon 1:9).

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