Isaiah 1:8
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.
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.
i.e. Zion, or Jerusalem; for these two names are promiscuously used of the same place; the name of daughter being frequently given to cities or countries. Thus the daughter of Babylon is put for Babylon itself, Psa 137:8 Isa 47:1. In the same sense we read of the daughter of Tyre, Psa 45:12, and of Zidon, Isa 23:12, and of Egypt, Jer 46:11,24, and of Edom, Lam 4:21.
is left solitary, all the neighbouring villages and country round about it being laid waste.